Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

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Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

ISBN: 113754578X
ISBN 13: 9781137545787
Autor: Luczak, Ewa Barbara
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: viii, 275 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

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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Beschreibung

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.

Autorenporträt

Ewa Barbara Luczak is Associate Professor of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. She is the author of How Their Living Outside America Affected Five African American Authors: Toward a Theory of Expatriate Literature.

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