Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-54578-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 4581 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luczak, Ewa Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Ewa Barbara Luczak is Associate Professor of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. She is the author of How Their Living Outside America Affected Five African American Authors: Toward a Theory of Expatriate Literature.