The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders
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The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1988.
Synopsis: The history of human civilization is the history of daydreaming, escapism and imagination. The book expounds on the nature of fiction, drama and the novel in its relationship to sexual imagination and sex crimes.
The book contains biographies of the Marquis de Sade, D.H. Lawrence, A. C. Swinburne, James Joyce, Yukio Mishima, Henry Miller, Tillich, Koestler, Percy Grainger, Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charlotte Bach.
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Acknowledgements ONE: The Secret of Charlotte Bach TWO: Charlotte and the Mysteries of Evolution THREE: Anarchy Incarnate FOUR: Romantic Agonies FIVE: Rebel Angel SIX: From Rebellion to Sex Crime SEVEN: Victorian Misfits EIGHT: Guilt and Defiance
Notes
Crime and sexual perversion
Colin Wilson seeks to establish a link between crime and perversion.
On Sade
In his excellent Misfits, Colin Wilson states that Marquis de Sade's philosophy was one of extreme selfishness, mentioning Sade's denial of the existence of benevolence and altruism. Wilson's portrait of Sade is the first well-balanced I encountered, neither villifying (as it was customary during the 19th century) nor exalting him as it was done in the 20th century (see De Beauvoir and Apollinaire). [Sept 2005]
Synopsis
The history of human civilization is the history of daydreaming, escapism and imagination and the nature of fiction (tale, drama novel, sexual imagination, sex crimes, ...)
