Modernist Eroticisms: European Literature After Sexology

by Shane Weller and Anna Katharina Schaffner

Book Overview

This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust and Rilke) as well as in that of some less-well-known figures of the period such as Dujardin and Jahnn.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349440353
• ISBN13: 9781349440351
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"