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. 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
• | Publication Date: Nov 22, 2011
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780230231627
• | ISBN-10: 0230231624