Modernism and Perversion

1. Introduction
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Part I. The Perversions in Sexology

2. The Birth of a Science: From Masturbation Theory to Krafft-Ebing
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3. The French Scene: Degeneration Theory and the Invention of Fetishism
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4. Sexology in England: Ellis, Carpenter and Lawrence
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5. The Golden Age of Sexology in Germany: Activism, Institutionalization and the Anthropological Turn
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6. Freud, Literature and the Perversification of Mankind
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Part II. The Perversions in Modernist Literature

7. Homosexuality: Thomas Mann and the Degenerate Sublime
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8. Anal Sex: D.H. Lawrence and the Back Door to Transcendence
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9. Sadism: Marcel Proust and the Banality of Evil
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10. Masochism: Franz Kafka and the Eroticization of Suffering
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11. Fetishism: Georges Bataille and Sexual-Textual Transgression
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12. Conclusion
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Keywords: History, Social History, European History, Literature, general, Modern History, Sexual Behavior, Fiction