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Modernist Eroticisms

European Literature After Sexology

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Anna Katharina Schaffner

    1. University of Kent, UK

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  2. Shane Weller

    1. University of Kent, UK

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature (PMEL)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Anna Katharina Schaffner, Shane Weller
    Pages 1-22

  3. Innocent Monsters: The Erotic Child in Early Modernism

    • Elizabeth Boa
    Pages 23-43

  4. D. H. Lawrence: Sex, Love, Eros — and Pornography

    • Michael Bell
    Pages 44-62

  5. Grazing with Marcel Proust

    • Thomas Baldwin
    Pages 63-79

  6. Seasick in the Land of Sexuality: Kafka and the Erotic

    • Anna Katharina Schaffner
    Pages 80-104

  7. Polymorphous Eroticism in the Early Plays of Hans Henny Jahnn

    • Ritchie Robertson
    Pages 105-122

  8. From the Erotic to the Obscene: Joyce’s Ulysses

    • Jean-Michel Rabaté
    Pages 123-133

  9. Towards a Unisex Erotics: Claude Cahun and Geometric Modernism

    • Emily Apter
    Pages 134-149

  10. The “Indecent” Eternal’: Eroticism in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

    • Daniela Caselli
    Pages 150-168

  11. Decomposition: Georges Bataille and the Language of Necrophilia

    • Shane Weller
    Pages 169-194

  12. Sexual Perversion as Textual Resistance in the Works of Rachilde and Monique Wittig

    • Lisa Downing
    Pages 195-212

  13. Modernism and the Erotics of Style

    • Ben Hutchinson
    Pages 213-231

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 232-250
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Kent, UK

    Anna Katharina Schaffner, Shane Weller

About the editors

EMILY APTER Professor of French, English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA THOMAS BALDWIN Senior Lecturer in French and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature, University of Kent, UK MICHAEL BELL, FBA Professor Emeritus in English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK ELIZABETH BOA Emeritus Professor of German, University of Nottingham, UK DANIELA CASELLI Senior Lecturer in English, University of Manchester, UK LISA DOWNING Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality and Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE), University of Exeter, UK BEN HUTCHINSON Reader in Modern German and Comparative Literature, Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature, University of Kent, UK JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, USA RITCHIE ROBERTSON Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, UK

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