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Author: Ewa Barbara Luczak
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 4.581kg
ISBN: 9781137545787
ISBN 10: 113754578
Pages: 275
Publication Date: 22 September 2015
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Luczak offers a broad cultural history of eugenic thinking at the same time it provides remarkably fresh and compelling interpretations of three important writers. Through her extensive acquaintance with the science, social theories, laws, and literature associated with eugenics, Luczak shows a masterly command of the arguments made on behalf of theories we may now dismiss as marginal or retrograde when in fact they once occupied a position of privilege and surprising authority in early twentieth-century American thought. - Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Luczak offers a broad cultural history of eugenic thinking at the same time it provides remarkably fresh and compelling interpretations of three important writers. Through her extensive acquaintance with the science, social theories, laws, and literature associated with eugenics, Luczak shows a masterly command of the arguments made on behalf of theories we may now dismiss as marginal or retrograde when in fact they once occupied a position of privilege and surprising authority in early twentieth-century American thought. - Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, USA A penetrating interpretation of the reach of eugenics in the early twentieth-century American literary imagination. Luczak's sharp analysis elucidates the pervasive and textured presence of themes and metaphors of breeding, degeneration, and perfection in the oeuvres of three prolific authors known for their poignant ruminations on gender, race, and westward expansion. This book complicates our understanding of eugenics as a literary and political force at the heart of American modernism. - Alexandra Stern, Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan, USA
Author Information
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.
