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- catalog abstract "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, A Room of One's Own, The Waste Land, and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. The language of eugenics moves, he claims, between public discourse and personal perspectives. It informs Woolf's theorisation of woman's imagination; in Eliot's poetry, it pictures as a nightmare the myriad contemporary eugenical threats to humankind's biological and cultural future. And for Yeats, it becomes integral to his engagement with the occult and his commitment to Irish Nationalism. 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.".
- catalog contributor b12259031.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description "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, A Room of One's Own, The Waste Land, and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. The language of eugenics moves, he claims, between public discourse and personal perspectives. It informs Woolf's theorisation of woman's imagination; in Eliot's poetry, it pictures as a nightmare the myriad contemporary eugenical threats to humankind's biological and cultural future. And for Yeats, it becomes integral to his engagement with the occult and his commitment to Irish Nationalism. 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-259) and index.".
- catalog description "Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint -- Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs. Dalloway -- Body and biology in A room of one's own -- Eliot on biology and birthrates -- To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question -- Fatal fertility in The waste land -- The late eugenics of W.B. Yeats -- Yeats and stirpiculture -- Yeats and The sexual question.".
- catalog extent "vii, 266 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521806011".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "2006 A-708".
- catalog subject "820.9/112/09041 21".
- catalog subject "Degeneration in literature.".
- catalog subject "Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 Views on race.".
- catalog subject "Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.".
- catalog subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Eugenics England History.".
- catalog subject "Eugenics in literature.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century England.".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century England.".
- catalog subject "Medicine in Literature England.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "PR478.M6 C47 2001".
- catalog subject "Prejudice England.".
- catalog subject "Race in literature.".
- catalog subject "Social Change England History.".
- catalog subject "WZ 330 C537m 2001".
- catalog subject "Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Views on race.".
- catalog subject "Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.".
- catalog subject "Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 Views on race.".
- catalog subject "Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint -- Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs. Dalloway -- Body and biology in A room of one's own -- Eliot on biology and birthrates -- To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question -- Fatal fertility in The waste land -- The late eugenics of W.B. Yeats -- Yeats and stirpiculture -- Yeats and The sexual question.".
- catalog title "Modernism and eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats and the culture of degeneration / Donald J. Childs.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".