CiNii 図書 - 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

edited and with an introduction by Lois A. Cuddy and Claire M. Roche

Bucknell University Press , Associated University Presses, c2003

Includes bibliographical references and index

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