Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930

by Anna Katharina Schaffner (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $34.22

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $95.87

  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.