Modernism and Eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration.
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Modernism and Eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration.
Author:
Childs, Donald J.
ISBN:
9780511153778
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (276 pages)
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 -- 3 BODY AND BIOLOGY IN A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN -- 4 ELIOT ON BIOLOGY AND BIRTHRATES -- 5 TO BREED OR NOT TO BREED: THE ELIOTS' QUESTION -- 6 FATAL FERTILITY IN THE WASTE LAND -- 7 THE LATE EUGENICS OF W. B. YEATS -- 8 YEATS AND STIRPICULTURE -- 9 YEATS AND THE SEXUAL QUESTION -- Index.
Abstract:
This book, first published in 2001, explores the impact of eugenics on the lives and work of such modernist writers as Woolf, Eliot and Yeats.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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