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...
| Основен автор: | Childs, Donald J. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=77898 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Modernism and eugenics. |
| Резюме: |
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 poetry and plays. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0511017855 9780511017858 0511044070 9780511044076 0511119704 9780511119705 9780521806015 0521806011 9780511485022 0511485026 |