Book ID: CBB000101008

Modernism and Eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration (2001)

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Childs, Donald J. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: 276 pp., bibl., notes, index
Language: English

Description Examines impact of eugenics movement on modernist works focusing on views on race by Woolf (1882-1941), Eliot (1888-1965), and Yeats (1865-1939).


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Betta, Emmanuel
Rodal, Jocelyn
Mariella Mehr
Saini, Angela
Teicher, Amir
Valles, Sean A.
Concepts
Science and race
Eugenics
Biology
Science and society
Science and literature
Human genetics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Places
Mexico
United States
Great Britain
Switzerland
Latin America
Greece
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