Modernism and perversion : sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930 / Anna Katharina Sc...
Modernism and perversion : sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930 / Anna Katharina Sc...
Modernism and perversion : sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930 / Anna Katharina Schaffner.
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Date
2012.
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N809.93353/76
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English
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xxi, 315 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- 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...
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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England
Date Published
2012.
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"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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Modernism and perversion : sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930 / Anna Katharina Schaffner.
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Modernism and--
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-311) and index.
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N809.93353/76
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74Vv3eLGWe23
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv3eLGWe23
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0230231632 (pbk.)
9780230231627 (hbk.)
0230231624 (hbk.)
9780230231634 (pbk.)
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809.933538
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991009887269702626
