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.