Modernism and Eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521806015)

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 work of several major modernist writers.

Author: Donald J. Childs
ISBN-10: 0521806011
ISBN-13: 9780521806015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2001
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2002 pg. 1235