Modernism and Perversion - Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930

Informationen zum Autor ANNA KATHARINA SCHAFFNER teaches Comparative Literature and is Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK. Her publications include a monograph on avant-garde poetry entitled Sprachzerlegung in historischer Avantgardelyrik und konkreter Poesie (2007) and articles on Dada, David Lynch, Franz Kafka, Frank Schulz, Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Thomas Mann. Klappentext Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical! psychiatric and psychological discourse! Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns! and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge. Zusammenfassung Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical! psychiatric and psychological discourse! Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns! and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: THE PERVERSIONS IN SEXOLOGY The Birth of a Science: From Masturbation Theory to Krafft-Ebing The French Scene: Degeneration Theory and the Invention of Fetishism Sexology in England: Ellis, Carpenter and Lawrence The Golden Age of Sexology in Germany: Activism, Institutionalization and the Anthropological Turn Freud, Literature and the Perversification of Mankind PART II: THE PERVERSIONS IN MODERNIST LITERATURE Homosexuality: Thomas Mann and the Degenerate Sublime Anal Sex: D.H. Lawrence and the Back Door to Transcendence Sadism: Marcel Proust and the Banality of Evil Masochism: Franz Kafka and the Eroticization of Suffering Fetishism: Georges Bataille and Sexual-Textual Transgression Conclusion Bibliography

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• Authors: A Schaffner, A. Schaffner, Anna Katharina Schaffner
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2011
• EAN: 9780230231634
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23163-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Modernism and...; Modernism and...
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; B, Literature, History, Fiction & related items, European History, Social History, Fiction, Literature, general, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Psychology of Gender and Sexuality, Psychology of gender, Europe—History, Fiction Literature, Sexual psychology, Sexual Behavior, Psychology: sexual behaviour, David Herbert Lawrence;England;Germany;sexual behaviour