Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint
- Chapter 2 Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs. Dalloway
- Chapter 3 Body and biology in A Room of One's Own
- Chapter 4 Eliot on biology and birthrates
- Chapter 5 To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question
- Chapter 6 Fatal fertility in The Waste Land
- Chapter 7 The late eugenics of W.B. Yeats
- Chapter 8 Yeats and stirpiculture
- Chapter 9 Yeats and The Sexual Question
- Notes
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint
- Chapter 2 Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs. Dalloway
- Chapter 3 Body and biology in A Room of One's Own
- Chapter 4 Eliot on biology and birthrates
- Chapter 5 To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question
- Chapter 6 Fatal fertility in The Waste Land
- Chapter 7 The late eugenics of W.B. Yeats
- Chapter 8 Yeats and stirpiculture
- Chapter 9 Yeats and The Sexual Question
- Notes
- Index
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- Modernism and EugenicsWoolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration, pp. 260 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001