Eugenics, literature and culture in post-war Britain / / lare Hanson

• Autore: Hanson Clare
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/00914
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Eugenics in literature; Eugenics - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Biopolitics - Great Britain - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-186) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Eugenics and the meritocracy -- Defective humans: mental deficiency in post-war Britain -- Genetics and eugenics -- Race and the body politic -- Population control -- Afterword.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts, Hanson tracks the dynamic interactions between eugenic ideas across diverse cultural fields, demonstrating the strength of the eugenic imagination. Challenging assumptions that eugenics was fatally compromised by its association with Nazi atrocities, or that it petered out in the context of changed social attitudes in an egalitarian post-war s
• Titolo autorizzato: Eugenics, literature and culture in post-war Britain
• ISBN: 1-136-22468-8; 1-283-71002-1; 0-203-09791-2; 1-136-22469-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813310303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature