Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex

Robert Deam Tobin

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2016

Peripheral Desires

The German Discovery of Sex

Robert Deam Tobin

In the series Haney Foundation Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291865

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About this book

As Germany—and German-speaking Europe—became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political, scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality.

Author / Editor information

Robert Deam Tobin is Henry J. Leir Chair in Language, Literature and Culture at Clark University. He is the author of Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"This is a major contribution to both gay and German studies. Tobin's work is exemplary."—Sander Gilman, Emory University

"Tobin's brilliantly argued, beautifully written and highly erudite study provides clear and nuanced answers to the question of why sexology should have arisen when and where it did."—Times Literary Supplement

"Peripheral Desires will set a new standard for the kind of cultural studies that the history of sexuality has always needed. Readers of this book will be newly edified in areas which they already thought they knew."—George E. Haggerty, University of California, Riverside

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface. Peripheral Desires Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction. 1869—Urnings, Homosexuals, and Inverts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Swiss Eros: Hössli and Zschokke, Legacies and Contexts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 2. The Greek Model and Its Masculinist Appropriation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 3. Jews and Homosexuals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 4. “Homosexuality” and the Politics of the Nation in Austria, Hungary, and Austria-Hungary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 5. Colonialism and Sexuality: German Perspectives on Samoa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Chapter 6. Swiss Universities: Emancipated Women and the Third Sex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Chapter 7. Thomas Mann’s Erotic Irony: The Dialectics of Sexuality in Venice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Chapter 8. Pederasty in Palestine: Sexuality and Nationality in Arnold Zweig’s De Vriendt kehrt heim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Conclusion. American Legacies of the German Discovery of Sex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 9 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: September 11, 2015
ISBN: 9780812291865