03421nam 22006612 450 991078028180332120151005020621.01-107-12393-30-521-03330-60-511-11970-40-511-48502-60-511-15377-50-511-30355-60-511-04407-01-280-15490-X(CKB)111082128284810(EBL)202157(OCoLC)559251508(UkCbUP)CR9780511485022(MiAaPQ)EBC202157(Au-PeEL)EBL202157(CaPaEBR)ebr5007858(CaONFJC)MIL15490(EXLCZ)9911108212828481020090226d2001|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierModernism and eugenics Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration /Donald J. Childs[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2001.1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-80601-1 0-511-01785-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Modernism & EugenicsEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)Great BritainDegeneration in literatureEugenics in literatureRace in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Degeneration in literature.Eugenics in literature.Race in literature.820.9/112/09041Childs Donald J.898764UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910780281803321Modernism and eugenics3816201UNINA