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).

Science in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sciences of Modernism examines key points of contact between British literature and the human sciences of ethnography, sexology and psychology at the dawn of the twentieth century. The book is divided into sections that pair exemplary scientific texts from the period with literary ones, charting numerous collaborations and competitions occurring between science and early modernist literature. Paul Peppis investigates this exchange through close readings of literary works by Claude McKay, E. M. Forster, Mina Loy, Rebecca West and Wilfred Owen, alongside science books by Alfred Haddon, Havelock Ellis, Marie Stopes, Bernard Hart and William Brown. In so doing, Peppis shows how these competing disciplines participated in the formation and consolidation of modernism as a broad cultural movement across a range of critical discourses. His study will interest students and scholars of the history of science, literary modernism, and English literature more broadly.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89488-9

1-107-70317-4

1-107-70197-X

1-107-67053-5

1-107-69310-1

1-107-59872-9

1-107-33720-8

1-107-70399-9