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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| ISBN: | 0511017855 9780511017858 0511044070 9780511044076 0511119704 9780511119705 9780521806015 0521806011 9780511485022 0511485026 1107123933 9781107123939 0521033306 9780521033305 0511153775 9780511153778 0511303556 9780511303555 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint; CHAPTER 2 Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs. Dalloway; CHAPTER 3 Body and biology in A Room of One's Own; CHAPTER 4 Eliot on biology and birthrates; CHAPTER 5 To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question; CHAPTER 6 Fatal fertility in The Waste Land; CHAPTER 7 The late eugenics of W.B. Yeats; CHAPTER 8 Yeats and stirpiculture; CHAPTER 9 Yeats and The Sexual Question; Notes; INTRODUCTION; 1 VIRGINIA WOOLF'S HEREDITARY TAINT; 2 BOERS, WHORES, AND MONGOLS IN MRS. DALLOWAY.