モダニズムと優生学:ウルフ、エリオット、イェイツと退廃文化<br>Modernism and Eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration

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モダニズムと優生学:ウルフ、エリオット、イェイツと退廃文化
Modernism and Eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 276 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780521806015
  • DDC分類 820.9112

基本説明

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.

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction; 1. Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint; 2. Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs Dalloway; 3. Body and biology in A Room of One's Own; 4. Eliot on biology and birthrates; 5. To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question; 6. Fatal fertility in The Waste Land; 7. The late eugenics of W. B. Yeats; 8. Yeats and stirpiculture; 9. Yeats and The Sexual Question; Notes; Index.