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Pages: 300
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Categories: Literary Criticism
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Charles Darwin's theory of descent suggested that man is trapped by biological determinism and environment, which requires the fittest specimens to struggle and
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This volume focusses on how American literature- in representing, challenging, and critiquing culture- appropriated and aesthetically transformed these theories
Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination
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Authors: Ewa Barbara Luczak
Categories: Literary Criticism
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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
A Political Companion to Flannery O'Connor
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Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book revi
Modern Sentimentalism
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Modern Sentimentalism examines how American female novelists reinvented sentimentalism in the modernist period. Just as the birth of the modern woman has long b