Modernism and eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration
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Main Author: Childs, Donald J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2001
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint; CHAPTER 2 Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs. Dalloway; CHAPTER 3 Body and biology in A Room of One's Own; CHAPTER 4 Eliot on biology and birthrates; CHAPTER 5 To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question; CHAPTER 6 Fatal fertility in The Waste Land; CHAPTER 7 The late eugenics of W.B. Yeats; CHAPTER 8 Yeats and stirpiculture; CHAPTER 9 Yeats and The Sexual Question; Notes; INTRODUCTION; 1 VIRGINIA WOOLF'S HEREDITARY TAINT; 2 BOERS, WHORES, AND MONGOLS IN MRS. DALLOWAY.
Donald Childs shows how Woolf, Eliot, and Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language of the modern imagination. He traces the impact of eugenics on such modernist works as Mrs Dalloway, The Waste Land, and Yeats's late poetry and plays
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 266 pages)
ISBN:0511017855
0511044070
0511119704
0511485026
0521806011
9780511017858
9780511044076
9780511119705
9780511485022
9780521806015

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