Evolution and eugenics in American literature and culture, 1880-1940 : essays on ideological conflict and complicity / edited and with an introduction by Lois A. Cuddy and Claire M. Roche.

Contents Introduction : ideological background and literary implications / Lois A. Cuddy and Claire M. Roche -- "It is the race instinct!" : evolution, eugenics, and racial ambiguity in William Dean Howells's fiction / Justin D. Edwards -- His and herland : Charlotte Perkins Gilman "re-presents" Lester F. Ward / Cynthia J. Davis -- Jack London's evolutionary hierarchies : dogs, wolves, and men / Lisa Hopkins -- Evolving into violence : poor white humor in T.S. Stribling's Teeftallow / Debra Beilke -- The origin of story and the survival of character in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Alex Vernon -- Eugenics and the fiction of Pauline Hopkins / John Nickel -- Bad blood and lost borders : eugenic ambivalence in Mary Austin's short fiction / Penny L. Richards -- "Feeble-minded" white women and the spectre of proliferating perversity in American eugenics narratives / Elizabeth Yukins -- "Tourists accommodated" with reservations : Dorothy Canfield's writings, Vermont tourism, and the eugenics movement in Vermont / Julia C. Ehrhardt -- Eugenics and the experimental breeding ground of Susan Glaspell's The verge / Tamsen Wolff -- Helen in Philadelphia : H.D.'s eugenic paganism / Andrew Lawson -- Re-examining the political left : Erskine Caldwell and the doctrine of eugenics / Sarah C. Holmes -- Reproducing the working class : Tillie Olsen, Margaret Sanger, and American eugenics / Claire M. Roche.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003005341
ISBN0838755550 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.E88 E95 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold