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Breeding : a partial history of the eighteenth century /
"The Enlightenment commitment to reason naturally gave rise to a belief in the perfectibility of man. Influenced by John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many eighteenth-century writers argued that the proper education and upbringing & -breeding & -could make any man a member of the cul...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2009]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Breeding Before Biology 1
- The language of human nature
- The concept of heredity
- Airs, waters, places
- The "Design of Lengthening and Whitening His Posterity"
- Perfectibility and Englightenment
- Looking-glass determinism
- The Ghost Structure
- Archeologies of ashes
- A nuance exercise
- Partial history
- Chapter 1 The Rules of Resemblance 14
- The question of scale
- Theatrical adaptations as cultural indicators
- Inheriting properties
- Why Children Look Like Their Fathers
- The Winter's Tale
- Marrying scions and stock
- "Art thou my boy?"
- "The whole matter / And copy of the father"
- The Rules of Resemblance
- Aristotle's carpenter
- The maternal imagination
- Jacob and Laban's sheep
- Aristoteles Master-Piece
- The organs of Adam and Eve
- Taffeta breeches
- "Nature's Bastards"
- Perdita's gillyflowers
- "The art itself is Nature"
- Egalitarian eugenics
- Grafting as metaphor
- Literary criticism and the science of genetics
- "Her Royal Image Stampt on Thee"
- Garrick's Florizel and Perdita
- "This pretty abstract of Hermione"
- Biparental heredity
- Why girls look like their mothers
- Burney's Evelina
- Inchbald's A Simple Story
- Darwin's novel-reading
- "To the memory of the fractured leg of my dear mother"
- Chapter 2 Bent 39
- The blank slate
- "God has stampt certain Characters upon Mens Minds"
- The two cultures
- The Blank Slate
- Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- The mind as white paper
- Original tempers and native propensities
- "Adam's Children"
- Sinners by Descent
- Augustine's generatione non imitatione
- The Pelagian heresy
- Genetic perfectibility
- Timothy Nourse's "Original Curse"
- "A Meer Errant Cat"
- "AEsopes Damosell"
- Blood and kind
- "Gentlemen born"
- Chapter 3 Cultures of Improvement 58
- Habit as second nature
- Fantasies of improvement, fears of degeneration
- Deucalion's Kin
- The Georgics
- Dryden's translation
- Jethro Tull and The New Horse-Houghing Husbandry
- Prose georgics and savage nature
- "A Living Magazine"
- Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
- "An education according to nature"
- The work of Providence
- Perfect Wildness
- The Wild Boy of Hamelin
- Defoe's Mere Nature Delineated
- "A lump of soft Wax"
- The Wolf Girls of Midnapore
- Original sin
- Forbidden experiments
- "A Perfect Yahoo"
- Species thinking
- Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- Locke's parrot
- "Teachableness, Civility and Cleanliness"
- "The Females had a natural Propensity to me as one of their own Species"
- Prolific mixtures
- The Perfectibility Problem
- Gulliver redux
- Putting an end to the species
- Plato's Republic
- More's naked women
- A Modest Proposal
- The calculus of breeding
- "Properties Descend!"
- Osmer versus Wall on equine improvement
- "Ascertaining What Species Can Procreate Together"
- Bradley's "cross Couplings"
- Bonnet and Spallanzani ponder the mystery of fecundation
- Maupertuis and the Earthly Venus
- Frederick of Prussia and the beautification of the nation
- Hybrids, varieties and human polygenesis
- La Mettrie prunes man like a tree
- Vandermonde and Gregory improve the human species
- Differences of Climate
- Sheep-rearing
- "The old hairy Tegument"
- Climate theory and Hartley's alterations
- Bodily organs
- Man as a domestic animal
- "The Management of Human Creatures"
- Proto-eugenicist arguments
- Hume's "Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations"
- Multiplying the species
- Wallace on the numbers of mankind
- Diderot's Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville and global experiments in breeding
- Crabs and Brambles
- Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- Raymond Williams country
- Georgic fantasies and filthy realism
- The reproductive life
- "The Blackberry is the fruit of the Bramble"
- Dunghills
- "A crab of my own planting"
- Fruit of a peculiar flavor
- Chapter 4 A Natural History of Inequality 112
- Splitting the culturalist consensus
- The Difference between One Man and Another
- Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality
- The idea of perfectibility
- The origin of difference
- The savage and the domesticated condition
- Civilization largely responsible for misery
- "We Are Born Twice Over"
- Rousseau's Emile
- "Nature's characters"
- "The present confusion between the sexes"
- "Nature's Own Pencil"
- The elocutionists
- "A natural tendency to degeneration"
- Thomas Sheridan and the language of Nature
- Condillac
- Harris's Hermes
- Herries' The Elements of Speech
- Human improvement
- Bound feet and misshapen heads
- Hippocratic habit
- "Nature framed her self to that Custome"
- The Natural Inequality of Man
- Monboddo's savages
- Acquired habits
- Custom a second nature
- Natural inequality
- "A Purity, Hwich Coarts Doo Not Always Bestow"
- Orthoepy
- Orthography
- Waistcoats and cucumbers
- "The onliest way to rise in the world"
- Vocabularies unintelligible to eye and ear
- Elphinston's Propriety Ascertained in her Picture
- Priestley on the laws of language and the laws of government
- The tacit obligations of language
- Noah Webster on the "ipse dixit of a Johnson, a Garrick, or a Sheridan"
- "I would have all the birds of the air to retain somewhat of their own notes"
- The Edgeworths' Essay on Irish Bulls
- "If an Englishman were born in Ireland"
- The logic of shibboleth
- Chapter 5 Blots on the Landscape 149
- Promethean thinking on population
- "A monster, a blot upon the earth"
- Sidelining sexual reproduction
- "This Blot in Our Country Increases"
- Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
- "Twenty of the best geniuses will be raked from the rubbish annually"
- The varieties of man
- "The extermination of the one or the other race"
- Color mixture
- Subjects of natural history
- "The Incessant Improveableness of the Human Species"
- Godwin's An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness and other writings on education
- Priestley on man's unbounded improvement
- Condorcet on the progress of perfectibility
- Gulliver's Travels and original sin
- Mind's tendency to rise
- Helvetius on the importance of education
- Physical influences on man
- The perverseness of institutions
- Differences between human beings
- Hercules and his brother
- "Human creatures are born into the world with various dispositions"
- Physiognomy as fatalism
- "Encumbering the World with Useless and Wretched Beings"
- The animal function of sex (Godwin, Condorcet)
- Malthus's Essay on Population
- The restraining bonds of society
- Cabanis and others on human improvement
- Chapter 6 Shibboleths 189
- Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones
- Handfuls of parsley
- Shibboleths
- Walker's Intermarriage
- Pinker's The Language Instinct
- Genes and culture
- The Ebonics controversy
- Race and voice
- The Blackmail of Enlightenment
- Foucault's "What Is Enlightenment?"
- Gestures of hospitality
- Accessibility and difficulty
- The problem of disciplines
- Conclusion: The Promise of Perfection 199
- "Where is now, the progress of the human Mind?"
- Adams versus Jefferson on the natural equality of mankind
- Sandel, Zizek, and Passmore on the allure of perfectibility
- Overrating talent
- The realm of causation.