Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930

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.

Author: A. Schaffner
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/22/2011
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780230231627

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.