{"product_id":"peripheral-desires-9780812247428","title":"Peripheral Desires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Germany-and German-speaking Europe-became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political, scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tobin's brilliantly argued, beautifully written and highly erudite study provides clear and nuanced answers to the question of why sexology should have arisen when and where it did.\" * \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a major contribution to both gay and German studies. Tobin's work is exemplary.\" * Sander Gilman, Emory University *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePeripheral Desires\u003c\/i\u003e will set a new standard for the kind of cultural studies that the history of sexuality has always needed. Readers of this book will be newly edified in areas which they already thought they knew.\" * George E. Haggerty, University of California, Riverside *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface. Peripheral Desires\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. 1869—Urnings, Homosexuals, and Inverts\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Swiss Eros: Hössli and Zschokke, Legacies and Contexts\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Greek Model and Its Masculinist Appropriation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Jews and Homosexuals\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"Homosexuality\" and the Politics of the Nation in Austria, Hungary, and Austria-Hungary\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Colonialism and Sexuality: German Perspectives on Samoa\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Swiss Universities: The Emancipated Woman and the Third Sex\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Thomas Mann's Erotic Irony: The Dialectics of Sexuality in Venice\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Pederasty in Palestine: Sexuality and Nationality in Arnold Zweig's De Vriendt kehrt heim\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. American Legacies of the German Discovery of Sex\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405726196055,"sku":"9780812247428","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812247428.jpg?v=1730493405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/peripheral-desires-9780812247428","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}