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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Views on race
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Views on race
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Views on race
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SUBJECT |
Eliot, T. S (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 |
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Yeats, W. B (William Butler), 1865-1939 |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 |
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 fast |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 fast |
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Woolf, Virginia. swd |
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Yeats, William B. swd |
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Eliot, Thomas S. swd |
Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
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Degeneration in literature.
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Eugenics in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Medicine in literature.
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Prejudices.
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English literature -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
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Eugenics -- history
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Medicine in Literature
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Prejudice
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Social Change -- history
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Prejudices
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Medicine in literature
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English literature -- Themes, motives
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Degeneration in literature
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English literature
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Eugenics in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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Race
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Race in literature
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Eugenik
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Literatur
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Vermögensabschöpfung
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Letterkunde.
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Engels.
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Modernisme (cultuur)
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Degeneratie.
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Eugenetica.
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SUBJECT |
England |
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Great Britain
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Englisch.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0511017855 |
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9780511017858 |
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0511044070 |
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9780511044076 |
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