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Modernism and Perversion

Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930

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  1. Anna Katharina Schaffner
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 1-29

  3. The Perversions in Sexology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. The Birth of a Science: From Masturbation Theory to Krafft-Ebing

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 33-62

    3. The French Scene: Degeneration Theory and the Invention of Fetishism

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 63-88

    4. Sexology in England: Ellis, Carpenter and Lawrence

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 89-111

    5. The Golden Age of Sexology in Germany: Activism, Institutionalization and the Anthropological Turn

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 112-136

    6. Freud, Literature and the Perversification of Mankind

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 137-166

  4. The Perversions in Modernist Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Homosexuality: Thomas Mann and the Degenerate Sublime

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 169-181

    3. Anal Sex: D.H. Lawrence and the Back Door to Transcendence

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 182-197

    4. Sadism: Marcel Proust and the Banality of Evil

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 198-217

    5. Masochism: Franz Kafka and the Eroticization of Suffering

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 218-235

    6. Fetishism: Georges Bataille and Sexual-Textual Transgression

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 236-253

  5. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Anna Katharina Schaffner
      Pages 254-267

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 268-315
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About this book

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.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Modernism and Perversion

  • Book Subtitle: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930

  • Authors: Anna Katharina Schaffner

  • Series Title: Modernism and...

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230358904

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23162-7Published: 22 November 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23163-4Published: 22 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-35890-4Published: 11 December 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2947-7220

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-7239

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 315

  • Topics: Social History, European History, Literature, general, Modern History, Sexual Behavior, Fiction

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