Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman

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Oxford University Press, 2003 - 250 pages
Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century is a fascinating, lucid, and controversial study of the centrality of eugenic debate to the Victorians. Reappraising the operation of social and sexual power in Victorian society and fiction, it makes a radical contribution to English studies, nineteenth-century and gender studies, and the history of science.
 

Contents

Women and Nature
33
Charity and Citizenship
58
Science and Love
78
Sarah Grand and Eugenic Love 55 95
126
Sarah Grand the Country and the City
132
George Egerton and Eugenic Morality
156
Individual Liberty and the Challenge
179
Afterword
215
Select Bibliography
228
Index
239
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Angelique Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Exeter University.

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