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Modernism and perversion

Modernism and perversion

Anna Katharina Schaffner

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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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OL16318703W

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LITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralHISTORY / Social HistorySex customs in literatureSexologyHISTORY / Modern / 20th CenturyModernism (Literature)RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender StudiesSex in literatureParaphiliasHistoryEnglish literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryFrench literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryGerman literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryAnal sexSexMasturbationHomosexualitySadism

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