The Ploy of Instinct Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance
The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance

It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox to...

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1. Verfasser: Frederickson, Kathleen (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Fordham University Press [2014]
Schriftenreihe:Forms of Living
Schlagworte:
Instinct
Nature
Science
Sexuality
Victorian
anthropology
pornography
psychoanalysis
sexology
suffragettes
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English literature > 19th century
Instinct > History > 19th century
Instinct > History > 19th century
Science > Great Britain > History > 19th century
Sex > Great Britain > History > 19th century
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
DE-858
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Zusammenfassung:It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox to instinct’s deployment in conceptualizing governmentality.Instinct’s domain, Frederickson argues, extended well beyond the women, workers, and "savages" to whom it was so often ascribed. The concept of instinct helped to gloss over contradictions in British liberal ideology made palpable as turn-of-the-century writers grappled with the legacy of Enlightenment humanism. For elite European men, instinct became both an agent of "progress" and a force that, in contrast to desire, offered a plenitude in answer to the alienation of self-consciousness.This shift in instinct’s appeal to privileged European men modified the governmentality of empire, labor, and gender. The book traces these changes through parliamentary papers, pornographic fiction, accounts of Aboriginal Australians, suffragette memoirs, and scientific texts in evolutionary theory, sexology, and early psychoanalysis
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (236 pages)
ISBN:9780823262540
DOI:10.1515/9780823262540

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