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Ewa Barbara Luczak
Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination [PDF ebook]
Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century

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A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940.

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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.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 275 ● ISBN 9781137545794 ● File size 3.4 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4563510 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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