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MODERNISM AND EUGENICS Woolf,Eliot,Rests,and the Culture of Degeneration by Childs, Donald J., Donald J. Childs, D.J Childs is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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In Modernism and Eugenics, Donald Childs reveals how Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of racial improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. He traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs. Dalloway, The Waste Land, and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. This is an original study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and

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Author

Childs, Donald J., Donald J. Childs, D.J Childs

Publisher

Cambridge, Uk ; Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521033305

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Medical, History

Updated

2026-03-25