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Auteur(s) : Schaffner, Anna Katharina
Titre(s) : Modernism and perversion [Texte imprimé] : sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930 / Anna Katharina Schaffner
Publication : Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Description matérielle : xxi, 315 p. ; 20 cm
Collection : Modernism and...
Lien à la collection : Modernism and...
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-311) and index
"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"--
Sujet(s) : Perversion sexuelle
Sexualité -- Dans la littérature
Littérature européenne -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature européenne -- 1900-1945 -- Thèmes, motifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780230231627 (hardback). - ISBN 0230231624 (hardback). - ISBN 9780230231634
(pbk.). - ISBN 0230231632 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42532971q
Notice n° :
FRBNF42532971
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