Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930
(Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Series)
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Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought.Studying transatlantic spiritualist literature from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, Christine Ferguson focuses on its incorporation and dissemination of bio-determinist and eugenic thought. She asks why ideas about rational reproduction, hereditary determinism and race improvement became so important to spiritualist novelists, journalists and biographers...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0748639659
ISBN13:9780748639656
Release Date:April 2012
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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