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).


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Authors & Contributors
Albright, Daniel
Bangham, Jenny
Bashford, Alison
Cogdell, Christina Grace
Dorr, Gregory Michael
Golston, Michael
Journals
Canadian Review of American Studies
Hispanic American Historical Review
Journal of Literature and Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
University of Oregon
University of Virginia
Brill
Columbia University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Science and race
Eugenics
Biology
Science and literature
Science and society
Human genetics
People
Eliot, Thomas Stearns
Woolf, Virginia
Yeats, William Butler
Pound, Ezra Loomis
Böhm, Johann
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Mexico
Great Britain
United States
British Isles
Germany
Greece
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