Degeneration, culture, and the novel, 1880-1940 / William Greenslade.
Degeneration, culture, and the novel, 1880-1940 / William Greenslade.
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Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Date
1994.
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N823.809355/5
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. De-generation -- 2. Biological poetics -- 3. Degenerate spaces: the urban crisis of the 1880s and The Mayor of Casterbridge -- 4. Reversionary tactics -- 5. Criminal degeneracy: adventures with Lombroso -- 6. Max Nordau and the Degeneration effect -- 7. Women and the disease of civilisation: Geor...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1994.
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Summary
He traces the difficulties experienced by writers, including Hardy, Gissing, Conan Doyle, Conrad, Wells, Forster and Woolf, in negotiating their own freedom of interpretation in the light of such theories; he pursues the survival of degenerationism in the work of popular writers Warwick Deeping and John Buchan; and he charts the resilience of its t...
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Degeneration, culture, and the novel, 1880-1940 / William Greenslade.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-345) and index.
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N823.809355/5
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74VKOMjBaX8Z
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0521416655 (hc)
9780521416658 (hardback)
0521416655 (hardback)
9780521416658 (hc)
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823.809355
823809355
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991022435789702626
