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Modernism and Perversion

Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930
By:A. Schaffner
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230231627
eText ISBN:9780230358904
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.