Evolution and eugenics in American literature and culture, 1880-1940
Subtitle: essays on ideological conflict and complicity
By: edited and with an introduction by Lois A. Cuddy and Claire M. Roche.
Contributors: Cuddy, Lois A.; Roche, Claire M.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Evolution (Biology) in literature.; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and science -- United States.; Evolution (Biology) -- United States.; Eugenics -- United States.; Eugenics in literature.; Race in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : ideological background and literary implications / Lois A. Cuddy and Claire M. Roche; title: "It is the race instinct!" : evolution, eugenics, and racial ambiguity in William Dean Howells's fiction / Justin D. Edwards; title: His and herland : Charlotte Perkins Gilman "re-presents" Lester F. Ward" / Cynthia J. Davis; title: Jack London's evolutionary hierarchies : dogs, wolves, and men / Lisa Hopkins; title: Evolving into violence : poor white humor in T.S. Stribling's Teeftallow / Debra Beilke; title: The origin of story and the survival of character in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Alex Vernon; title: Eugenics and the fiction of Pauline Hopkins / John Nickel; title: Bad blood and lost borders : eugenic ambivalence in Mary Austin's short fiction / Penny L. Richards; title: "Feeble-minded" white women and the spectre of proliferating perversity in American eugenics narratives / Elizabeth Yukins; title: "Tourists accommodated" with reservations : Dorothy Canfield's writings, Vermont tourism, and the eugenics movement in Vermont / Julia C. Ehrhardt; title: Eugenics and the experimental breeding ground of Susan Glaspell's The verge / Tamsen Wolff; title: Helen in Philadelphia : H.D.'s eugenic paganism / Andrew Lawson; title: Re-examining the political left : Erskine Caldwell and the doctrine of eugenics / Sarah C. Holmes; title: Reproducing the working class : Tillie Olsen, Margaret Sanger, and American eugenics / Claire M. Roche.