This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and literary representations in post-war Britain, tracing the expression of eugenic ideas across disciplinary boundaries and in both high and low culture and demonstrating its powerful and pervasive influence as a cultural movement.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2012-09-27
Language: English
Number of Pages: 200
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..