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

Donald Childs shows how Woolf, Eliot, and Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language of the modern imagination. He traces the impact of eugenics on such modernist works as Mrs Dalloway, The Waste Land, and Yeats's late poet...

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Main Author: Childs, Donald J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Views on race.
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965 > Views on race.
Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939 > Views on race.
Eliot, T. S > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965
Yeats, W. B > (William Butler), > 1865-1939
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Degeneration in literature.
Eugenics in literature.
Race in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Prejudices.
English literature > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Eugenics > history
Medicine in Literature
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Prejudice
Social Change > history
England
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