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.
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.
Title: Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930
Author: Anna Katharina Schaffner
ISBN: 9780230231627
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2011-11-22
Number of Pages: 315
Weight: 0.4583 kg