Modernism and eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration / Donald J. Childs.
Modernism and eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration / Donald J. Childs.
Modernism and eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration / Donald J. Childs.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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2001.
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N820.9112/3
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English
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vii, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
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1. Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint -- 2. Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs. Dalloway -- 3. Body and biology in A Room of One's Own -- 4. Eliot on biology and birthrates -- 5. To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question -- 6. Fatal fertility in The Waste Land -- 7. The late eugenics of W. B. Yea...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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England
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2001.
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"In Modernism and Eugenics, Donald J. Childs shows how Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and W. B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. Childs traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of...
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Modernism and eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration / Donald J. Childs.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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0521806011 :
9780521806015 (hardback)
0521806011 (hardback)
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820.9356
820.911209041
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