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Evolution and eugenics in American literature and culture, 1880-1940 : essays on ideological conflict and complicity
- Title
- 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.
- Publication
- Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2003.
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- Description
- 285 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Literature and science > United States
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 > Influence
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Race in literature
- Evolution (Biology) in literature
- Eugenics > United States
- Evolution (Biology) > United States
- Eugenics in literature
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-14192
- ISBN
- 0838755550 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003005341
- OCLC
- 51867791
- Title
- 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.
- Imprint
- Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Cuddy, Lois A.Roche, Claire M.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-14192