Sciences of Modernism : Ethnography, Sexology, and Psychology

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--publisher's Description. 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. Paul Peppis, University Of Oregon. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 Illustrations 11 Acknowledgments 13 Introduction 17 Part I Ethnographies 31 Chapter 1 Salvage Ethnography, Cultural Cross-Dressing, and Autoethnography in A. C. Haddon’s Head-Hunters: Black, White, and Brown 33 Salvaging Headhunting 39 Crossing Cultures 47 Autoethnography and the Administrator’s Magic 59 Chapter 2 Salvaging Dialect, Cultural Cross-Dressing, and Antiethnographic Autoethnography in Claude McKay’s Constab Ballads 72 Dramatic Monologues in Dialect and the Poetries of Salvage 76 Cultural Cross-Dressing and the Subaltern Lyric Bildungsroman 88 Antiethnographic Autoethnographies 99 Part II Sexologies 115 Chapter 3 Homosexual Bildung and Sexological Modernism in Havelock Ellis and John A. Symonds’s Sexual Inversion and E. M. Forster’s Maurice 117 Normalizing Inverts and Homosexual Bildung in Sexual Inversion 119 Humanizing Homosexology 121 Case Histories and Homosexual Bildung 126 Maurice, Homosexual Bildung, and Queer Modernism 136 Querying the Bildungsroman 140 Queer Endings 155 Chapter 4 Rewriting Sex: Sexology and Sentimental Modernism in Marie Stopes’s Married Love and Mina Loy’s Songs to Joannes 164 Sentimental Science, Scientific Love: Married Love 168 Dissecting Love: Songs to Joannes 185 Part III Psychologies 211 Chapter 5 Treating Trauma, Modernizing Narrative: Bernard Hart’s The Psychology of Insanity and Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier 213 The Psychology of Insanity: Modernizing Mental Science 216 A Psychiatric Mosaic 218 From Complex Conflicts to Phantastic Projections 224 The Return of the Soldier: Narrating War Trauma 232 Narrat(iviz)ing Dissociation 236 Dissociating Narrative 241 Chapter 6 “Mental Cases”: Forms of Shell Shock in William Brown’s Psychology and Psychotherapy and Poems by Wilfred Owen 256 Classicizing Psychotherapy 260 Epic Trauma 268 Class(ify)ing Neurasthenia 276 Versifying Neurasthenia 281 Conclusion 290 Notes 297 chapter 1 297 chapter 2 298 chapter 3 299 chapter 4 300 chapter 5 301 chapter 6 301 Bibliography 303 Index 319 This book examines the intersection of British literature and the human sciences of ethnography, sexology and psychology at the dawn of the twentieth century. By analyzing literary texts alongside scientific ones, Paul Peppis demonstrates how these competing disciplines participated in the formation of modernism as a broad, cross-disciplinary cultural movement.