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.
| ISBN: | 9780230231627 |
| Publication date: | 22nd November 2011 |
| Author: | Anna Katharina Schaffner |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 315 pages |
| Series: | Modernism And-- |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history European history Psychology of gender History Biography, Literature and Literary studies Fiction |