"We of the third sex" : literary representations of homosexuality in Wilhelmine Germany
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"We of the third sex" : literary representations of homosexuality in Wilhelmine Germany
（German life and civilization, vol. 7）
P. Lang, c1990
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A revised and somewhat enlarged version of the first half of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Wisconsin) presented under the title: The third sex in German literature from the turn of the century to 1933
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-339) and index
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Description
This study traces the influence which the medical model of homosexuality, conceived and formulated largely by German physicians, exerted upon works of prose fiction and dramas written between the late 1880s and 1914. This Third Sex, as it was named, inhabited a space created between the heterosexual male and female, and its members rapidly proliferated in literary works. Combining historical, narrative and feminist approaches, the author analyzes over three dozen works in terms of both their social contexts and the aesthetic strategies they employ in presenting homosexual characters. The writers studied include: Frank Wedekind, Elizabeth Dauthendey, Robert Musil, Maria Janitschek, Thomas Mann and John Henry Mackay. Jones' readings of these texts reveal that these depictions evolved from a rather exact mirroring of the medical model for homosexuality into a more varied presentation in which we find the genesis of a specifically German literary discourse on homosexualities.
Table of Contents
Contents: The creation of the Third Sex - The homosexual rights movement, 1896-1918 - Adolf von Wilbrandt - The Conservative response - The Lesbian Figure - Diffusion of the Medical Discourse - Freudian Model - Beginning of a literary discourse on homosexuality.
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