 | Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex Subjects: German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Homosexuality in literature; Homosexuality and literature; Homosexuality -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Homosexuality -- German; 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. 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. |
