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Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain (Paperback)
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Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in
literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide
range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy,
genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts,
Hanson tracks the dynamic interactions between eugenic ideas across
diverse cultural fields, demonstrating the strength of the eugenic
imagination. Challenging assumptions that eugenics was fatally
compromised by its association with Nazi atrocities, or that it
petered out in the context of changed social attitudes in an
egalitarian post-war society, the book demonstrates that eugenic
thought not only persisted after 1945, but became more prominent.
Throughout, eugenics is defined as a cultural movement, rather than
more narrowly as a science, and the study is focused on its
border-crossing capacity as a 'style of thought.' By tracing the
expression of eugenic ideas across disciplinary boundaries and in
both high and low culture, this book demonstrates the powerful and
pervasive influence of eugenics in the post-war years. Authors
visited include Raymond Williams, John Braine, Agatha Christie,
Muriel Spark, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, and J.G. Ballard.
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