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"In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and its enduring connections to racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers as diverse as Martin Delany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Walt Whitman worried about unsustainable conditions such as population growth and plantation slavery. In response, they imagined 'agrotopias'-sustainable societies unaffected by the nation's agricultural and population crises-elsewhere. Though seemingly progressive, these agrotopian visions depicted selective breeding and racial 'improvement' as the path to environmental stability. In this fascinating study, Goode uncovers an early sustainability rhetoric interested in shaping, just as much as sustaining, the American population"--

Environmentalism in literature. --- Agriculture in literature. --- Eugenics in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- Sustainable agriculture --- History.

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American literature --- Atavism in literature. --- Atavism --- Biology --- Eugenics in literature. --- Human reproduction in literature. --- Literature and science --- Science and literature --- History and criticism. --- History

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Literature and science --- Race in literature. --- Eugenics in literature. --- Motherhood in literature. --- Birth control in literature. --- Abortion in literature. --- American fiction --- History and criticism.

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In When Sex Changed, Layne Parish Craig analyzes the ways literary texts responded to the political, economic, sexual, and social values put forward by the birth control movements of the 1910's to the 1930's in the United States and Great Britain. Discussion of contraception and related topics (including feminism, religion, and eugenics) changed the way that writers depicted women, marriage, and family life. Tracing this shift, Craig compares disparate responses to the birth control controversy, from early skepticism by mainstream feminists, reflected in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, to concern about the movement's race and class implications suggested in Nella Larsen's Quicksand, to enthusiastic speculation about contraception's political implications, as in Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas. While these texts emphasized birth control's potential to transform marriage and family life and emancipate women from the "slavery" of constant childbearing, birth control advocates also used less-than-liberatory language that excluded the poor, the mentally ill, non-whites, and others. Ultimately, Craig argues, the debates that began in these early political and literary texts-texts that document both the birth control movement's idealism and its exclusionary rhetoric-helped shape the complex legacy of family planning and women's rights with which the United States and the United Kingdom still struggle.

American literature --- English literature --- Women and literature. --- Birth control in literature. --- Feminism and literature. --- Eugenics in literature. --- Birth control --- Population control --- Pregnancy --- Family planning --- Contraception --- Reproductive rights --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Prevention --- Women authors --- Literature and feminism

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In challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English argues that in the 1920's, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W. E. B. Du Bois, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen were shaped by anxieties regarding immigration and intraracial breeding.

American literature --- Eugenics in literature. --- African Americans --- Modernism (Literature) --- African Americans in literature. --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Race in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- New Negro Movement --- Renaissance, Harlem --- African American arts --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- White authors --- Intellectual life --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Eugenics in literature --- United States --- African Americans in literature --- Race in literature --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt --- Eliot, Thomas Stearns --- Stein, Gertrude