Modernism and Perversion

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Modernism and Perversion is written by A. Schaffner and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 023035890X (ISBN 10) and 9780230358904 (ISBN 13).

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.