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Ruth Hoberman, Museum Trouble: Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of Modernism (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011). xi+pp 236. ISBN: 9780813931265.

Ruth Hoberman, Museum Trouble: Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of Modernism (Charlottesville:... Book Reviews the project of homosexual apology and sex reform while rejecting Bildung's common connection to heterosexual romance and marriage' (103). Similarly, in his discussion of modernist psychologies Peppis demonstrates the operative assumption that `modern trauma demands classical cures' whether that be in the application of Aristotelian notions of catharsis to the psychiatric cure of shell shock in William Brown's text Psychology and Psychotherapy, or through the use of the epic form to redress psychic trauma in Wilfred Owen's poetry (252). It is interesting to note the different models of periodization used by Seitler and Peppis, and doing so helps to locate the quite different stakes of two studies that at a cursory glance appear to cover much of the same conceptual territory. Seitler refers to the fin de siècle as the `late modern period', thus emphasizing the place of her study at the troubled tail end of the Enlightenment and all it stood for (14). In Seitler's able grasp, atavism serves as a lens for unpacking the cataclysmic revisions of Enlightenment notions of time and of the human as they emerged from modernist sciences. Peppis describes this same period as the `early modernist moment' (5). In doing http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modernist Cultures Edinburgh University Press

Ruth Hoberman, Museum Trouble: Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of Modernism (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011). xi+pp 236. ISBN: 9780813931265.

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Modernist Cultures , Volume 10 (1): 131 – Mar 1, 2015
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press 2015
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Book Reviews; Film, Media and Cultural Studies
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2041-1022
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10.3366/mod.2015.0103
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Book Reviews the project of homosexual apology and sex reform while rejecting Bildung's common connection to heterosexual romance and marriage' (103). Similarly, in his discussion of modernist psychologies Peppis demonstrates the operative assumption that `modern trauma demands classical cures' whether that be in the application of Aristotelian notions of catharsis to the psychiatric cure of shell shock in William Brown's text Psychology and Psychotherapy, or through the use of the epic form to redress psychic trauma in Wilfred Owen's poetry (252). It is interesting to note the different models of periodization used by Seitler and Peppis, and doing so helps to locate the quite different stakes of two studies that at a cursory glance appear to cover much of the same conceptual territory. Seitler refers to the fin de siècle as the `late modern period', thus emphasizing the place of her study at the troubled tail end of the Enlightenment and all it stood for (14). In Seitler's able grasp, atavism serves as a lens for unpacking the cataclysmic revisions of Enlightenment notions of time and of the human as they emerged from modernist sciences. Peppis describes this same period as the `early modernist moment' (5). In doing

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