Description
| Product ID: | 9780230231627 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Modernism and... |
| Title: | Modernism and Perversion |
| Subtitle: | Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930 |
| Authors: | Author: A. Schaffner |
| Page Count: | 315 |
| Subjects: | Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Literature & literary studies, Fiction and Related items, European history, General and world history, Social and cultural history, Psychology of gender, Fiction & related items, European history, History: earliest times to present day, Social & cultural history, Psychology of gender |
| Description: | 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-11-22 |
