«We of the Third Sex»: Literary Representations of Homosexuality in Wilhelmine Germany

by James W. Jones

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820412090
• ISBN13: 9780820412092
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.