In Modernism and Eugenics, Donald Childs reveals how Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of racial improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. He traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs. Dalloway, The Waste Land, and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. This is an original study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers.
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"Articles on individual modernist writers outline connections between their works and eugenical thought, but Childs' study is the first full-length treatment of this issue in relation to literary modernism, and as such is a valuable contribution to the field.... a very worthwhile contribution to modernist study." Woolf Studies Annual
"Child's book is at its best." Modern Fiction Studies
"investigates the influence of eugenics upon the lives and works of three modernist writers... Childs makes a knowledgeable case..." English Literature In Transition 1880-1920
"Child's book is at its best." Modern Fiction Studies
"investigates the influence of eugenics upon the lives and works of three modernist writers... Childs makes a knowledgeable case..." English Literature In Transition 1880-1920
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In Modernism and Eugenics, Donald Childs shows how Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and W. B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. Childs traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs Dalloway, The Waste Land, and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. This is an original study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers.
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Virginia Woolf's eugenical self has gone largely unremarked - perhaps not surprisingly. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eugenical beliefs, eugenical concerns, eugenical discourse, fatal fertility, compulsory breeding, eugenical ideas, graded unfit, wasteful virtues, many eugenists, wild old wicked man, differential birthrate, human weeds, golden cradle, sinewy thigh, sexual question, national degeneration, complex marriage, negative eugenics, speckled bird, moral insanity, wandering womb, hereditary taint Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Sexual Question, Room of One's Own, Lady Bruton, Don Juan, Eugenics Congress, Maud Gonne, The Eugenics Review, The King's Threshold, Eugenics Society, South Africa, Virginia Woolf, Richard Dalloway, Sir William, Paul Ruttledge, Sir John, Where There Is Nothing, Life Force, Sally Seton, National Birth-Rate Commission, Hereditary Genius, Lady Gregory, Leonard Darwin, Miss Brush, Playboy of the Western World, Princess Volupine New!
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Virginia Woolf's eugenical self has gone largely unremarked - perhaps not surprisingly. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eugenical beliefs, eugenical concerns, eugenical discourse, fatal fertility, compulsory breeding, eugenical ideas, graded unfit, wasteful virtues, many eugenists, wild old wicked man, differential birthrate, human weeds, golden cradle, sinewy thigh, sexual question, national degeneration, complex marriage, negative eugenics, speckled bird, moral insanity, wandering womb, hereditary taint Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Sexual Question, Room of One's Own, Lady Bruton, Don Juan, Eugenics Congress, Maud Gonne, The Eugenics Review, The King's Threshold, Eugenics Society, South Africa, Virginia Woolf, Richard Dalloway, Sir William, Paul Ruttledge, Sir John, Where There Is Nothing, Life Force, Sally Seton, National Birth-Rate Commission, Hereditary Genius, Lady Gregory, Leonard Darwin, Miss Brush, Playboy of the Western World, Princess Volupine New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot on 30 pages
- Speckled Bird (Yeats studies series) by William Butler Yeats on 10 pages
- Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw on 9 pages
- Where There Is Nothing (Collected Works of William Butler Yeats) by William Butler Yeats on 6 pages
- Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee on 6 pages
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- Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival (Oxford English Monographs) by Sinï¿1/2ad Garrigan Mattar on page 109
- Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 by Patrick Brantlinger in Back Matter
- Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Daylanne K. English in Back Matter
- The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett by Lee Oser in Back Matter
- Youth of Darkest England: Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire (Children's Literature and Culture) by Troy Boone in Back Matter
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