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

• Autore: Childs Donald J.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/112/09041
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain; Degeneration in literature; Eugenics in literature; Race in literature
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Modernism & Eugenics
• Titolo autorizzato: Modernism and eugenics
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813191103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II