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

By Childs , Donald J

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0-521-80601-1, 9780521806015, 9780511017858, 0511017855, 9780511044076, 0511044070, 9780511119705, 0511119704, 9780511485022, 0511485026
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1198240 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
266\274
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
English literature 20th century History and critic

Description

In Modernism and Eugenics, Donald Childs reveals how Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of racial improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. He traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs. Dalloway, The Waste Land, and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. This is an original study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers

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