Description:
Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies examines the diverse ways that literary works and paintings can be read as screens onto which new images of masculinity and femininity are cast. Esther Bauer focuses on German and Austrian writers and artists from the 1910s and 1920s --specifically authors Franz Kafka, Vicki Baum, and Thomas Mann, and painters Otto Dix, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele--who gave spectacular expression to shifting trends in male and female social roles and the organization of physical desire and the sexual body.
Review Quotes: "The interdisciplinary approach makes this book stimulating and intellectually provocative. ... [Bauer's] bibliography lists roughly 500 titles and her copious notes make up one quarter of the book, documenting her labor and erudition." --Monatshefte