Modernism and eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration /

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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 poet...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Childs, Donald J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
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.
Eliot, T. S > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965
Yeats, W. B > (William Butler), > 1865-1939
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Et la race.
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965 > Et la race.
Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939 > Et la race.
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965
Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939
Woolf, Virginia.
Yeats, William B.
Eliot, Thomas S.
1900-1999
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
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Grande-Bretagne.
Dégénérescence dans la littérature.
Eugénisme dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Préjugés.
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.
England
Great Britain
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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