TY - BOOK ID - 77901082 TI - Modernism and eugenics PY - 2001 SN - 1107123933 0521033306 0511119704 0511485026 0511153775 0511303556 0511044070 128015490X 0511017855 9780511017858 9780511044076 9780511119705 9780521806015 0521806011 9780511485022 9781107123939 9780521033305 9780511153778 9780511303555 PB - Cambridge, UK New York, NY Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Degeneration in literature. KW - Eugenics in literature. KW - Race in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Woolf, Virginia, KW - Eliot, T. S. KW - Yeats, W. B. KW - Yeats, William Butler KW - D. E. D. I., KW - Daemon Est Deus Inversus, KW - Ganconagh, KW - I., D. E. D., KW - Йейтс, У. Б. KW - Ĭeĭts, U. B. KW - Йейтс, Уильям Батлер, KW - Ĭeĭts, Uilʹi︠a︡m Batler, KW - Weilian Batele Yezhi, KW - Yeṭs, Ṿilyam Baṭler, KW - יטס, יטלאם בטלר KW - ייטס, ויליאם בטלר, KW - 威廉,巴特勒,叶芝, KW - Eliot, Thomas Stearns KW - Woolf, Virginia Stephen, KW - Stephen, Virginia, KW - Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, KW - Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, KW - Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, KW - Вулф, Вирджиния, KW - וולף, וירג׳יניה KW - וולף, וירג׳יניה, KW - Stephen, Adeline Virginia, KW - Views on race. KW - Degeneration in literature KW - Eugenics in literature KW - Race in literature KW - 820 "19" KW - 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 KW - Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 KW - History and criticism KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Woolf, Virginia KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Ai-lüeh-tʻe, KW - Īliyūt, T. S., KW - Elliŏtʻŭ, KW - Eliot, Thōmas S., KW - Eliot, Th. S., KW - Eliot, Thomas Stern, KW - Elyoṭ, T. S., KW - Ėliot, Tomas Stirns, KW - אליוט ט.ס KW - אליוט, ת. ס. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901082 AB - In Modernism and Eugenics, first published in 2001, Donald Childs shows how Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. Childs traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, The Waste Land and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. The language of eugenics moves, he claims, between public discourse and personal perspectives. It informs Woolf's theorization of woman's imagination; in Eliot's poetry, it pictures as a nightmare the myriad contemporary eugenical threats to humankind's biological and cultural future. And for Yeats, it becomes integral to his engagement with the occult and his commitment to Irish Nationalism. This is an interesting study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers. ER -