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Degeneration, Culture and the Novel - 1880-1940 (Paperback)
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Degeneration, Culture and the Novel - 1880-1940 (Paperback)
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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. In this book William Greenslade
investigates the impact of degeneration theories on British
culture, and on fiction. He traces the difficulties experienced by
writers, including Hardy, Gissing, 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 Warwich Deeping and John Buchan; and
he charts the resilience of its tropes through the 1930s.
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