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 |