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Degeneration, culture, and the novel, 1880-1940

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  • "Towards the end of the nineteenth century many affluent and educated people, influenced by developments in medical, biological and psychiatric sciences, became convinced that ignorance, insanity and criminality - even homosexuality and hysteria - were symptoms of the degeneration of the human race. Such theories seemed to provide plausible explanations for disturbing social changes, and new insights into human character and morality. For a time they achieved extraordinary dominance. William Greenslade's book is the first to investigate the impact of degeneration theories on British culture and on fiction. He traces the difficulties experienced by writers, including Hardy, Gissing, Conan Doyle, Conrad, Wells, Forster and Woolf, in negotiating their own freedom of interpretation in the light of such theories; he pursues the survival of degenerationism in the work of popular writers Warwick Deeping and John Buchan; and he charts the resilience of its tropes through the 1930s to the holocaust."

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  • "Degeneration, culture, and the novel, 1880-1940"
  • "Degeneration, culture, and the novel : 1880 - 1940"
  • "Degeneration, culture and the novel, 1880-1940"
  • "Degeneration, culture and the novel 1880-1940"
  • "Degeneration, culture and the novel : 1880-1940"
  • "Degeneration culture and the novel : 1880-1940"

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