{"product_id":"modernism-and-perversion-sexual-deviance-in-sexology-and-literature-18501930-9780230231627","title":"Modernism and Perversion Sexual Deviance in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharting 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 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 Bibliography","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732949315927,"sku":"9780230231627","price":33.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernism-and-perversion-sexual-deviance-in-sexology-and-literature-18501930-9780230231627","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}