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Author Childs, Donald J

Title Modernism and eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration / Donald J. Childs
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 266 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Views on race
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Views on race
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Views on race
SUBJECT Eliot, T. S (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Yeats, W. B (William Butler), 1865-1939
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 fast
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 fast
Woolf, Virginia. swd
Yeats, William B. swd
Eliot, Thomas S. swd
Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
Degeneration in literature.
Eugenics in literature.
Race in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Prejudices.
English literature -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
Eugenics -- history
Medicine in Literature
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Prejudice
Social Change -- history
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Prejudices
Medicine in literature
English literature -- Themes, motives
Degeneration in literature
English literature
Eugenics in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Race
Race in literature
Eugenik
Literatur
Vermögensabschöpfung
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Degeneratie.
Eugenetica.
SUBJECT England
Subject Great Britain
Englisch.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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