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Informationen zum Autor Robert Deam Tobin Klappentext As Germany-and German-speaking Europe-became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political, scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality. Zusammenfassung As Germany-and German-speaking Europe-became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries! what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political! scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Peripheral Desires Introduction. 1869—Urnings, Homosexuals, and Inverts Chapter 1. Swiss Eros: Hössli and Zschokke, Legacies and Contexts Chapter 2. The Greek Model and Its Masculinist Appropriation Chapter 3. Jews and Homosexuals Chapter 4. "Homosexuality" and the Politics of the Nation in Austria, Hungary, and Austria-Hungary Chapter 5. Colonialism and Sexuality: German Perspectives on Samoa Chapter 6. Swiss Universities: The Emancipated Woman and the Third Sex Chapter 7. Thomas Mann's Erotic Irony: The Dialectics of Sexuality in Venice Chapter 8. Pederasty in Palestine: Sexuality and Nationality in Arnold Zweig's De Vriendt kehrt heim Conclusion. American Legacies of the German Discovery of Sex Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
