Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination
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Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century

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Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century

About this book

A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940.

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Yes, you can access Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination by Ewa Barbara Luczak in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literature General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781137545787
eBook ISBN
9781137545794
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 “A T ruly A ngelic S ociety”: E ugenic H umanity w ithout Humans
  9. 2 “Practical-Headed Judgment of a Stock-Breeder”: Sexual Selection in the Early Fiction of Jack London
  10. 3 “Vast and Malodorous Sea”: Racial Degeneration in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss and The Scarlet Plague
  11. 4 Eugenic Strands in the Gynaecocentric Criticism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  12. 5 “Endowment of Motherhood”: Gilman’s Utopian Fiction
  13. 6 “At Best Race Is a Superstition”: George S. Schuyler’s Journalistic Battles with Racial Absolutism
  14. 7 Between “Chromatic Emancipation” and a Fascist State: Schuyler’s Black No More and Black Empire
  15. Conclusions Before We Move Forward
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index