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Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination: Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century

By Ewa Barbara Luczak (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2015
ISBN
978-1-349-55493-5, 978-1-137-54579-4
DOI
10.1057/9781137545794
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3342853 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Edition
1
Pages
VIII, 275\281
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Twentieth-Century Literature; Literary Theory; Cul

Description

A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940.

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