Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940

Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940
Author :
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 300
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0838755550
ISBN-13 : 9780838755556
Rating : 4/5 (556 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940 by : Lois A. Cuddy

Download or read book Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940 written by Lois A. Cuddy and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Darwin's theory of descent suggested that man is trapped by biological determinism and environment, which requires the fittest specimens to struggle and adapt without benefit of God in order to survive. Tthis volume focusses on how American literature appropriated and aesthetically transformed this, and related, theories.


Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940 Related Books

Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Lois A. Cuddy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Bucknell University Press

GET EBOOK

Charles Darwin's theory of descent suggested that man is trapped by biological determinism and environment, which requires the fittest specimens to struggle and
Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Lois A. Cuddy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-01 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

This volume focusses on how American literature- in representing, challenging, and critiquing culture- appropriated and aesthetically transformed these theories
American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Mark W. Van Wienen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 offers provocative new readings of authors whose innovations are recognized as inaugurating Modernism in US lette
Westerns
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Victoria Lamont
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

GET EBOOK

At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is mal
Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Jessica Straley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-06 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitu