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

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index.

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.