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.

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

List of Illustrations Series Editors' Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.K.Schaffner & S.Weller Innocent Monsters: The Erotic Child in Early Modernism; E.Boa D.H. Lawrence: Sex, Love, Eros - and Pornography; M.Bell Grazing with Marcel Proust; T.Baldwin Seasick in the Land of Sexuality: Kafka and the Erotic; A.K.Schaffner Polymorphous Eroticism in the Early Plays of Hans Henny Jahnn; R.Robertson From the Erotic to the Obscene: Joyce's Ulysses ; J-M.Rabaté Towards a Unisex Erotics: Claude Cahun and Geometric Modernism; E.Apter 'The 'Indecent' Eternal': Eroticism in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ; D.Caselli Decomposition: Georges Bataille and the Language of Necrophilia; S.Weller Sexual Perversion as Textual Resistance in the Works of Rachilde and Monique Wittig; L.Downing Modernism and the Erotics of Style; B.Hutchinson Bibliography Index