By David Bradshaw
This concise better half bargains an cutting edge method of realizing the Modernist literary brain in Britain, concentrating on the highbrow and cultural contexts, which formed it.
Offers an leading edge method of realizing the Modernist literary brain in Britain.
Helps readers to know the highbrow and cultural contexts of literary Modernism.
Organised round modern principles resembling Freudianism and eugenics instead of literary genres.
Relates literary Modernism to the overarching problems with the interval, similar to feminism, imperialism and struggle.
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Mazumdar, Pauline M. H. 1991. Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, its Sources and its Critics in Britain. London: Routledge. Waugh, Patricia, ed. 1997. Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature. London and New York: Arnold. 5 Angelique Richardson 1 The Life Sciences: “Everybody nowadays talks about evolution” Angelique Richardson In the first year of the third millennium, Charles Darwin replaced Charles Dickens on the British ten-pound note.
But the intensification of sexual difference persisted. In 1899 the social purist Ellice Hopkins wrote: “Let us be of good cheer. Sex is a very ancient institution, the slow evolution of hundreds of centuries, and is in no danger of being obliterated by the fashion of a day” (93). Likewise, for Sarah Grand, the popular New Woman novelist and social-purity feminist, biology was central to sex: “womanhood is a constitutional condition which cannot be altered” (1892). In The Heavenly Twins Evadne, with a glint in her eye, declared that in championing sexual reform she was not so much ““revo” – but “evolutionary”“ (230).
For Stoker, female sexual desire signals the unrestraint that was leading to British self-contamination; for Egerton, unbridled female sexual desire would allow women to exercise their powers of selection to their full in sexual relations, and this would improve national stock. In the closing years of the nineteenth century popular engagement with biology became underpinned by a new, and overtly political, agenda. The Victorian novel had always been interested in successive generations of family, often taking the mechanism of legacy as the plot pivot, as is the case in, for example, Jane Eyre (1847), Bleak House (1852–3), and Felix Holt (1866).