Modernism and Eugenics

by Marius Turda

Book Overview

Is the nation an 'imagined community' centered on culture or rather a biological community determined by heredity? Modernism and Eugenics examines this question from a bifocal perspective. On the one hand, it looks at technologies through which the individual body was re-defined eugenically by a diverse range of European scientists and politicians between 1870 and 1940; on the other, it illuminates how the national community was represented by eugenic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230230830
• ISBN13: 9780230230835
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"