Degeneration, culture and the novel, 1880-1940 / William Greenslade.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: xiii, 355 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780521131124 (pbk.) :; 052113112X (pbk.) :Subject(s): English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History | Degeneration in literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 823.8'09355 Summary: Towards the end of the 19th century developments in medical, biological and psychiatric sciences encouraged theories of the degeneration of the human race. Here, William Greenslade investigates the impact of degeneration theories on British culture and explores the trope in the work of novelists including Hardy and Woolf.
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Originally published: 1994.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Towards the end of the 19th century developments in medical, biological and psychiatric sciences encouraged theories of the degeneration of the human race. Here, William Greenslade investigates the impact of degeneration theories on British culture and explores the trope in the work of novelists including Hardy and Woolf.
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