Peripheral Desires : : The German Discovery of Sex / / Robert Deam Tobin.
In Peripheral Desires, Robert Deam Tobin charts the emergence, from the 1830s through the early twentieth century, of a new vocabulary and science of human sexuality in the writings of literary authors, politicians, and members of the medical establishment in German-speaking central Europe-and obser...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface. Peripheral Desires
- Introduction. 1869-Urnings, Homosexuals, and Inverts
- Chapter 1. Swiss Eros: Hössli and Zschokke, Legacies and Contexts
- Chapter 2. The Greek Model and Its Masculinist Appropriation
- Chapter 3. Jews and Homosexuals
- Chapter 4. "Homosexuality" and the Politics of the Nation in Austria, Hungary, and Austria-Hungary
- Chapter 5. Colonialism and Sexuality: German Perspectives on Samoa
- Chapter 6. Swiss Universities: Emancipated Women and the Third Sex
- Chapter 7. Thomas Mann's Erotic Irony: The Dialectics of Sexuality in Venice
- Chapter 8. Pederasty in Palestine: Sexuality and Nationality in Arnold Zweig's De Vriendt kehrt heim
- Conclusion. American Legacies of the German Discovery of Sex
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments