Ebook: Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination: Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century
Author: Ewa Barbara Luczak (auth.)
- Tags: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, North American Literature, Fiction, Literary History
- Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature Science and Medicine
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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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