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Evolution and eugenics in American literature and culture, 1880-1940

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Cover of: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940
Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity
August 2003, Bucknell University Press
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Cover of: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940
Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity
2003, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Evolution and eugenics in American literature and culture, 1880-1940
Evolution and eugenics in American literature and culture, 1880-1940: essays on ideological conflict and complicity
2003, Bucknell University Press, Associated University Presses
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Lewisburg, Pa, London

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Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/356
Library of Congress
PS374.E88 E95 2003, PS374.E88E95 2003

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285 p. ;
Number of pages
285

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Open Library
OL3673095M
ISBN 10
0838755550
LCCN
2003005341
OCLC/WorldCat
51867791
Library Thing
6855349
Goodreads
4099897

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