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Modernism and Eugenics

Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration
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In Modernism and Eugenics, 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 theorisation 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 original study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers.

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Donald Childs is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Ottawa.
Release date Australia
September 6th, 2001
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
276
Dimensions
155x229x23
ISBN-13
9780521806015
Product ID
3638150

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