1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456022403321

Autore

Childs Donald J.

Titolo

Modernism and eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration / / Donald J. Childs [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12393-3

0-521-03330-6

0-511-11970-4

0-511-48502-6

0-511-15377-5

0-511-30355-6

0-511-04407-0

1-280-15490-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.9/112/09041

Soggetti

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain

Degeneration in literature

Eugenics in literature

Race in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003765029707536

Autore

Nuzzaci, Francesco

Titolo

Claude Bernard : crezionista e meccanicista : fisiologia, medicina, milieu intérieur / Francesco Nuzzaci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lecce : Libreria Adriatica, 1999

Descrizione fisica

528 p. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

610.92

Soggetti

Bernard, Claude

Bernard, Claude

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliografia: p. 393-486. Indici



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777495403321

Autore

Sussman Henry

Titolo

High resolution [[electronic resource] ] : critical theory and the problem of literacy / / Henry S. Sussman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989

ISBN

1-280-52350-6

0-19-536369-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

810/.9

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism - United States

Literacy - United States

Critical theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Toward Differential Literacy: The Pursuit of Rigor in the Age of Kitsch; 2. The Marble Faun and the Space of American Letters; 3. The Deconstructor and the Politician: Melville's The Confidence-Man; 4. The University of Verse: The Economies of Modern American Poetry; 5. The Expanding Castle: The Literature of Literacy; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This book combines literary theory and close textual readings of works by Hawthorne, Melville, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound and Italo Calvino to explore the socio-political correlatives to literary studies.