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Modernism and eugenics : = Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modernism and eugenics :/ Donald J. Childs.
Reminder of title:	Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration /
remainder title:	Modernism & Eugenics
Author:	Childs, Donald J.,
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485022
ISBN:	9780511485022 (ebook)

Modernism and eugenics : = Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration /
Childs, Donald J.,

Modernism and eugenics :Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration /Modernism & EugenicsDonald J. Childs. - 1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

In Modernism and Eugenics, first published in 2001, 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 theorization 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 interesting study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers.

ISBN: 9780511485022 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

802337
Woolf, Virginia,
1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

556920
English literature
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PR478.M6 / C47 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/112/09041

Modernism and eugenics : = Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration /
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