Book ID: CBB000500826

Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (2003)

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Cuddy, Lois A. (Editor)
Roche, Claire M. (Editor)


Bucknell University Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: 285 pp.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Includes Chapters

Chapter Cuddy, Lois A.; Roche, Claire M. (2003) Introduction: Ideological Background and Literary Implications. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 9). unapi

Chapter Edward, Justin D. (2003) “It is the race instinct!”: Evolution, Eugenics, and Racial Ambiguity in William Dean Howells's Fiction. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 59). unapi

Chapter Davis, Cynthia J. (2003) His and Herland: Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Re-presents” Lester F. Ward. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 73). unapi

Chapter Hopkins, Lisa (2003) Jack London's Evolutionary Hierarchies: Dogs, Wolves, and Men. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 89). unapi

Chapter Beilke, Debra (2003) Evolving into Violence: Poor White Humor in T. S. Stribling's Teeftallow. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 102). unapi

Chapter Vernon, Alex (2003) The Origin of Story and the Survival of Character in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 116). unapi

Chapter Nickel, John (2003) Eugenics and the Fiction of Pauline Hopkins. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 133). unapi

Chapter Richards, Penny L. (2003) Bad Blood and Lost Borders: Eugenic Ambivalence in Mary Austin's Short Fiction. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 148). unapi

Chapter Yukins, Elizabeth (2003) “Feeble-Minded” White Women and the Spectre of Proliferating Perversity in American Eugenics Narratives. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 164). unapi

Chapter Wolff, Tamsen (2003) Eugenics and the Experimental Breeding Ground of Susan Glaspell's The Verge. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 203). unapi

Chapter Ehrhardt, Julia C. (2003) “Tourists Accommodated” with Reservations: Dorothy Canfield's Writings, Vermont Tourism, and the Eugenics Movement in Vermont. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 187). unapi

Chapter Lawson, Andrew (2003) Helen in Philadelphia: H. D.'s Eugenic Paganism. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 220). unapi

Chapter Holmes, Sarah C. (2003) Re-examining the Political Left: Erskine Caldwell and the Doctrine of Eugenics. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 240). unapi

Chapter Roche, Claire M. (2003) Reproducing the Working Class: Tillie Olsen, Margaret Sanger, and American Eugenics. In: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity (p. 259). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bender, Bert A.
Bruni, John P.
Cannariato, Christy A.
Carswell, Lilian P.
Cherico, Rebecca Vitz
Daigle, Jonathan R.
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
History of the Human Sciences
Journal of the History of Biology
Science and Education
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
University of Kansas
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University
New York University
Edinburgh University Press
Concepts
Evolution
Science and literature
Darwinism
Eugenics
Science and race
Human-animal relationships
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
London, Jack
Howells, William Dean
Ward, Lester Frank
Adams, Henry
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
Places
United States
Great Britain
Brazil
Germany
Russia
Spain
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