Degeneration, culture, and the novel, 1880-1940/

Main Author: Greenslade, William M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c1994
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245 1 0 |a Degeneration, culture, and the novel, 1880-1940/  |c William Greenslade 
260 |a Cambridge:  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c c1994 
300 |a xiii, 355 p. :  |b ill ;  |c 24 cm. 
500 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-345) and index. 
500 |a Contents: 1. De-generation -- 2. Biological poetics -- 3. Degenerate spaces: theurban crisis of the 1880s and The Mayor of Casterbridge -- 4.Reversionary tactics -- 5. Criminal degeneracy: adventures withLombroso -- 6. Max Nordau and the Degeneration effect -- 7. Women andthe disease of civilisation: George Gissing's The Whirlpool -- 8. Thelure of pedigree and the menaces of heredity in Tess of theD'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure -- 9. Race-regeneration -- 10.Masculinity, morbidity and medicine: Howards End and Mrs Dalloway --11. The way out is the way back: the anti-modernists -- 12.Postscripts. 
650 0 |a Degeneration in literature 
650 0 |a English fiction  |x History and criticism  |y 19th century 
650 0 |a English fiction  |x History and criticism  |y 20th century 
650 0 |a Literature and society  |x History  |z Great Britain 
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