Modernism and perversion: sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930
Auteur :
Schaffner, A.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9780230231627
Date de publication :
22 nov. 2011
Dimensions :
20,3 x 12,7 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.