Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schaffner, Anna Katharina

Titel

Sexuality

Ist Teil von

• Exhaustion, 2016

Ort / Verlag

Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter focuses on conceptions of sexuality in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the idea that so-called 'perverse' sexual activities (such as masturbation, homosexuality, and sexual excess) lead to the exhaustion of precious and non-renewable life-energy. It discusses sexological writings, degeneration theory, and vampire fiction, which draws on these theories. The literary text discussed in detail is John Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla'.