Modernism And Perversion: Sexual Deviance In Sexology And Literature, 1850-1930

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.

• | By (Author): A. Schaffner
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Nov 22, 2011
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 315 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0230231624
• | ISBN-13: 9780230231627