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Modernism and Eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration

By Donald J. Childs

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
9780511017858, 0521806011, 0511485026, 0511017855, 9780511485022, 9780521806015
LCC
PR478.M6 C47 2001
Open Library ID
OL3941233M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
869 kB (889480 bytes)
Pages
274\274
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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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