Modernism and perversion: sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930

Introduction

Part I. The Perversions in Sexology: The birth of a science: from Masturbation Theory to Krafft-Ebing; The French scene: degeneration theory and the invention of fetishism; Sexology in England: Ellis, Carpenter and Lawrence; The golden age of sexology in Germany: activism, institutionalization and the anthropological turn; Freud, literature and the perversification of mankind

Part II. The Perversions in Modernist Literature: Homosexuality: Thomas Mann and the degenerate sublime; Anal sex: D.H. Lawrence and the back door to transcendence; Sadism: Marcel Proust and the banality of evil; Masochism: Franz Kafka and the eroticization of suffering; Fetishism: Georges Bataille and sexual-textual transgression

Conclusion.