Breeding and eugenics in the American literary imagination : heredity rules in the twentieth century /: heredity rules in the twentieth century. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ewa Barbara Luczak.
• Authors: Luczak, Ewa Barbara
• Contents: Introduction; 1. "A Truly Angelic Society": Eugenic Humanity Without Humans; 2. "Practical-Headed Judgment Of A Stock-Breeder": Sexual Selection In The Early Fiction Of Jack London; 3. "Vast And Malodorous Sea": Racial Degeneration In Jack London's The People Of The Abyss And The Scarlet Plague; 4. Eugenic Strands In The Gynaecocentric Criticism Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman; 5. "Endowment Of Motherhood": Gilman's Utopian Fiction; 6. "At Best Race Is A Superstition": George S. Schuyler's Journalistic Battles With Racial Absolutism; 7. Between "Chromatic Emancipation" And A Fascist State: Schuyler's Black No More And Black Empire; Conclusions: Before We Move Forward
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 810.936; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Eugenics in literature; Breeding in literature; Heredity in literature; American/African-American; General; Women Authors; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900; Literary studies: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137545800; 1137545801
• Related ISBNs: 9781137545787
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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