Modernism and Perversion
by A. Schaffner
English literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryFrench literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryGerman literature, history and criticism, 19th centurySexologyParaphiliasHistorySex customs in literatureSex in literature
"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"--
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