Modernist Eroticisms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Anna Katharina Schaffner, Shane Weller

   Pages 1-22

3. Innocent Monsters: The Erotic Child in Early Modernism

   • Elizabeth Boa

   Pages 23-43

4. D. H. Lawrence: Sex, Love, Eros — and Pornography

   • Michael Bell

   Pages 44-62

5. Grazing with Marcel Proust

   • Thomas Baldwin

   Pages 63-79

6. Seasick in the Land of Sexuality: Kafka and the Erotic

   • Anna Katharina Schaffner

   Pages 80-104

7. Polymorphous Eroticism in the Early Plays of Hans Henny Jahnn

   • Ritchie Robertson

   Pages 105-122

8. From the Erotic to the Obscene: Joyce’s Ulysses

   • Jean-Michel Rabaté

   Pages 123-133

9. Towards a Unisex Erotics: Claude Cahun and Geometric Modernism

   • Emily Apter

   Pages 134-149

10. The “Indecent” Eternal’: Eroticism in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

    • Daniela Caselli

    Pages 150-168

11. Decomposition: Georges Bataille and the Language of Necrophilia

    • Shane Weller

    Pages 169-194

12. Sexual Perversion as Textual Resistance in the Works of Rachilde and Monique Wittig

    • Lisa Downing

    Pages 195-212

13. Modernism and the Erotics of Style

    • Ben Hutchinson

    Pages 213-231

14. Back Matter

    Pages 232-250

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This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust and Rilke) as well as in that of some less-well-known figures of the period such as Dujardin and Jahnn.

• David Herbert Lawrence
• English literature
• Europe
• Franz Kafka
• Marcel Proust
• Modernism
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• sexual behaviour
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Kent, UK

  Anna Katharina Schaffner, Shane Weller

EMILY APTER Professor of French, English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA THOMAS BALDWIN Senior Lecturer in French and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature, University of Kent, UK MICHAEL BELL, FBA Professor Emeritus in English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK ELIZABETH BOA Emeritus Professor of German, University of Nottingham, UK DANIELA CASELLI Senior Lecturer in English, University of Manchester, UK LISA DOWNING Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality and Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE), University of Exeter, UK BEN HUTCHINSON Reader in Modern German and Comparative Literature, Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature, University of Kent, UK JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, USA RITCHIE ROBERTSON Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, UK

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