Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination [electronic resource] : Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century /
Luczak, Ewa Barbara.author.
A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940.
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A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
America—Literatures.
Fiction.
Literature—History and criticism.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
North American Literature.
Fiction.
Literary History.