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.

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