Love and eugenics in the late nineteenth century
Subtitle: rational reproduction and the new woman
By: Angelique Richardson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Love in literature.; Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Eugenics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Human reproduction in literature.; Social classes in literature.; Middle class in literature.; Rationalism in literature.; Eugenics in literature.; Women in literature.
Description: "Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century recontextualizes New Woman writers, demonstrating that they were as concerned with the questions of poverty, sickness, and health as they were with the changing role of women, the issue for which they are currently generally known and celebrated. Focusing on fiction and the press, and drawing on the papers and published work of Galton and other eugenists, Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century reveals the cultural pervasiveness of eugenics and explores, for the first time, the intimate relations between early feminism and eugenics, making a radical contribution to nineteenth-century studies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-238) and index.