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Violent Sensations (Paperback)
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Around the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna and Berlin were
centers of scientific knowledge, accompanied by a sense of
triumphalism and confidence in progress. Yet they were also sites
of fascination with urban decay, often focused on sexual and
criminal deviants and the tales of violence surrounding them.
Sensational media reports fed the prurient public's hunger for
stories from the criminal underworld: sadism, sexual murder, serial
killings, accusations of Jewish ritual child murder--as well as
male and female homosexuality. In Violent Sensations, Scott Spector
explores how the protagonists of these stories--people at society's
margins--were given new identities defined by the groundbreaking
sciences of psychiatry, sexology, and criminology, and how this
expert knowledge was then transmitted to an eager public by
journalists covering court cases and police investigations. The
book analyzes these sexual and criminal subjects on three levels:
first, the expertise of scientists, doctors, lawyers, and scholars;
second, the sensationalism of newspaper scandal and pulp fiction;
and, third, the subjective ways that the figures themselves came to
understand who they were. Throughout, Spector answers important
questions about how fantasies of extreme depravity and bestiality
figure into the central European self-image of cities as centers of
progressive civilization, as well as the ways in which the sciences
of social control emerged alongside the burgeoning emancipation of
women and homosexuals.
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