Donald J. Childs

Modernism and Eugenics

Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780521806015
• ISBN-10: 0521806011
• Artikelnr.: 29338935

Autorenporträt

Donald Childs is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Ottawa.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Notes
Index.