Sciences of modernism : ethnography, sexology, and psychology / Paul Peppis, University of Oregon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peppis, Paul, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature and science--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Literature and science.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

History.

Great Britain.

Science in literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 310 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Contents:

Introductiohn

Ethnographies. Salvage ethnography, cultural cross-dressing, and autoethnography in A.C. Haddon's Head-hunters: black, white, and brown

Salvaging dialect, cultural cross-dressing, and antiethnographic Autoethnography in Claude Mckay's Constab ballads

Sexologies. Homosexual bildung and sexological modernism in Havelock Ellis and John A. Symonds's Sexual inversion and E. M. Forster's Maurice

Re-writing sex: sexology and sentimental modernism in Marie Stopes's Married love and Mina Loy's Songs to Joannes

Psychologies. Treating trauma, modernizing narrative: Bernard Hart's The psychology of Insanity and Rebecca West's The return of the soldier

"Mental cases": forms of shellshock in William Brown's Psychology and Psychotherapy and poems by Wilfred Owen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107042643

110704264X

OCLC:

858749339

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