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.
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- Modernism and Eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration by Donald J. Childs
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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.
Modernism and Eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration by Donald J. Childs
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. Hardcover , pages. Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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To ask other readers questions about Modernism and Eugenics , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Modernism and Eugenics. Given this ambivalence, it is sometimes hard to stay with an argument that insists that Sir William Bradshaw, the narrator, and Woolf herself are all "cut from the same cloth" as "diagnosers of [End Page ] mental illness" At other times, for Childs, Woolf seems to indict herself simply by being informed: Overall, the "eugenics" in Woolf's work and Woolf's view of eugenics seem insufficiently established.
It is telling, then, that the repeated speculations aimed at hunting down eugenic influences throughout this book who read what and when become more plausible in the later chapters about Eliot and Yeats.
It seems telling, too, that the three chapters Childs devotes to each author do not indicate equal treatment: In these chapters, and especially those on Yeats, Childs has far less to do to persuade his reader of the presence of eugenic thinking and, as a consequence, the engagement with a rich diversity of material is far more compelling. This material ranges from Eliot's interest in E.
MacBride's essay "The Study of Heredity" which helped to consolidate a new post-Mendelian language and provided Eliot with "detailed knowledge of contemporary biology If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'. View freely available titles: Book titles OR Journal titles.
Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination.
Modernism and Eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration
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. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Learn more about Amazon Prime.
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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. Read more Read less. Review "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 Cambridge University Press; 1st edition September 17, Language: Be the first to review this item Amazon Best Sellers Rank: