Evolution and eugenics in American literature and culture, 1880-1940 : essays on ideological conflict and complicity
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Evolution and eugenics in American literature and culture, 1880-1940 : essays on ideological conflict and complicity
Bucknell University Press , Associated University Presses, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Introduction : ideological background and literary implications / Lois A. Cuddy and Claire M. Roche
- "It is the race instinct!" : evolution, eugenics, and racial ambiguity in William Dean Howells's fiction / Justin D. Edwards
- His and herland : Charlotte Perkins Gilman "re-presents" Lester F. Ward" / Cynthia J. Davis
- Jack London's evolutionary hierarchies : dogs, wolves, and men / Lisa Hopkins
- Evolving into violence : poor white humor in T.S. Stribling's Teeftallow / Debra Beilke
- The origin of story and the survival of character in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Alex Vernon
- Eugenics and the fiction of Pauline Hopkins / John Nickel
- Bad blood and lost borders : eugenic ambivalence in Mary Austin's short fiction / Penny L. Richards
- "Feeble-minded" white women and the spectre of proliferating perversity in American eugenics narratives / Elizabeth Yukins
- "Tourists accommodated" with reservations : Dorothy Canfield's writings, Vermont tourism, and the eugenics movement in Vermont / Julia C. Ehrhardt
- Eugenics and the experimental breeding ground of Susan Glaspell's The verge / Tamsen Wolff
- Helen in Philadelphia : H.D.'s eugenic paganism / Andrew Lawson
- Re-examining the political left : Erskine Caldwell and the doctrine of eugenics / Sarah C. Holmes
- Reproducing the working class : Tillie Olsen, Margaret Sanger, and American eugenics / Claire M. Roche
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内容説明
Charles Darwin's theory of descent shook the foundations of Western thought and bibllical authority and suggested that, like our animal progenitors, man is trapped by biological determinism and environment, which requires the fittest specimens to struggle and adapt without benefit of God in order to survive. The related principles of eugenics, which promoted progress through social engineering, also has profound implications and consequences. In this contect, this volume focusses on how American literature- in representing, challenging, and critiquing culture- appropriated and aesthetically transformed these theories and, reciprocally, how literature was altered by these ideas. In exploring the extent and depth of these theories on genres and individual authors, the editors have included individual essays from different theoretical positions on canonical and non-canonical, black and white, female and male authors, (on race, class, and gender issues), and on literature with different geographical settings and publlication venues- essays that examine an American literary landscape inseparable from social attitudes and ideologies.
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