Heike Bauer
Birkbeck College, University of London

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Heike Bauer is a doctoral student at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her thesis inverstigates the links between sexology and literature, especially the influences between German sexology and English literary writing, 1864-1939. It focuses on the works of the Germans Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Magnus Hirschfeld as well as on writings by the English sexologists John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis. The literary part of the thesis includes studies of select writings by Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, and Edith Lees; Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons and Walter Pater; Sir Richard Burton; and Radclyffe Hall.
Keywords: sexology, New Woman, aestheticism, autobiography, homosexuality, lesbianism, Victorian and Edwardian literature, queer theory

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