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Sexuality at the fin de siècle : the makings of a "central problem"
- Title
- Sexuality at the fin de siècle : the makings of a "central problem" / edited by Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2008.
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- Description
- 201 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "It has come to be widely accepted that "sexuality" as we know it took shape at the end of the nineteenth century, This is when Krafft-Ebing asserted that "sexual feeling is really the root of all ethics, and no doubt of aestheticism and religion," and Havelock Ellis declared sexuality to be the "central problem of life." Yet however self-evident Ellis's claim about sexuality might seem the act of placing something at the center is the consequence of insistent cultural work that engages with competing views about bodies and indeed about the "life" of society. This volume examines how this work was carried out and what resulted from such efforts."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the makings of a central problem / Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth -- Anatomies of desire : photographic exhibitions of female bodies in fin-de-siècle anatomical museums / Elizabeth Stephens -- Beyond the theater of desire : hysterical performativity and perverse choreography in the writings of the Salpêtrière School, 1862-93 / Jonathan Marshall -- The bastard offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite : sexual "anomalies" and medical curiosity in France / Gabrielle Houbre ; Nikki Clavarino and Peter Cryle, translators -- The aesthetics of the spasm / Peter Cryle -- Measurements of civilization : non-western female sexuality and the fin-de-siècle social body / Heike Bauer -- "The despair of unhappy love" : pederasty and popular fiction in the Belle Époque / Michael L. Wilson -- Fin-de-siècle sexuality and excretion / Alison Moore -- A diet of pleasures : sexuality, dietetics, and identity at the fin de siècle / Christopher E. Forth -- The "open secret," affect, and the history of sexuality / Carolyn J. Dean -- Afterword : sex and heredity at the fin de siècle / Vernon A. Rosario.
- ISBN
- 9780874130379
- 0874130379
- 9781611491012
- 1611491010
- LCCN
- 2008006774
- OCLC
- ocn212432469
- 212432469
- SCSB-14692312
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library