Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman [Hardcover]

Angelique Richardson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 24, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0198187009 | ISBN-13: 978-0198187004

Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century is a fascinating, lucid, and controversial study of the centrality of eugenic debate to the Victorians. Reappraising the operation of social and sexual power in Victorian society and fiction, it makes a radical contribution to English studies, nineteenth-century and gender studies, and the history of science.

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"This is a bravely revisionist reading, which will give considerable pause for thought to all those who have enthusiastically embraced and celebrated the progressive, protofeminist aspects of the New Woman movement.... Richardson exposes not just the class biases, but in some cases the antihumanitarianism of these writers."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

"Richardson provides an important analysis of 'The Woman Question' in 19th-century Britain through a tour of the ideas of Darwin, Galton, Mill, and three Victorian novelists: Sarah Grand, George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne), and Mona Caird."--Choice

About the Author

Angelique Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Exeter University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 24, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198187009
• ISBN-13: 978-0198187004
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,339,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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