New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2014. This book examines key points of contact between British literature and the human sciences of ethnography, sexology and psychology at the dawn of the twentieth century. 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.