...Riché Richardson Duke University Press 2006 Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance . By Daylanne K. English. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xii, 267 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. Rethinking Social Realism...

...’’ (Letter 132, 1939). The Selected Letters is a very useful book for any student of Tennessee Williams and his plays. Peter L. Hays, University of California, Davis Eugene O’Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy. By Stephen A. Black. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1999. xxiv, 543 pp. $29.95. More...

... Butts’s naïve spiritualism, Foy may alienate the very scholarly readers 208 American Literature she hopes to attract, not to mention those who will be put off by the fact that Butts’s primitivism had its roots in class snobbery. Charlotte H. Beck, Maryville College Eugene O’Neill and His Eleven...

... was also the era of eugenics 8 Doyle specifically exempts W. E. B. DuBois from eugenic thinking, however, arguing that he, along with Franz Boas, ‘‘spoke openly against racial- ism of all kinds throughout this period 9...

... in the development of humane education, as we work to transform children’s literature and animal welfare work into sites for anti-racist thought and action. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 race children’s literature eugenics animal welfare humane education...

... speaks back to this logic by suggesting that the legal system is insane, not Eugene. By showing how accusations of impaired judgement undermined these documents, Harper exposes as an illusion law’s principle wherein documents are believed to convey an individual’s agency. This critique, notably, emerges...

... Booth’s career, including his journeyman years in California, his antebellum rise to fame, and his foreign tours. Mary Edwards Bryan: Her Early Life and Works . By Canter Brown Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2015. xvi, 351 pp. $74.95. With the publication...

..., this logic supports eradicating disabled bodies through practices directed at individuals—such as assisted suicide, mercy killing, and withholding nourishment—and those directed at certain groups deemed inferior— such as selective abortion, sterilization, euthanasia, eugenics, and institutionalization.9...

... certain conditions, we can stretch the span ofuseful- ness, and enable the patient to recapture the raptures, if not the roses of youth.—Eugen Steinach Inherautobiography,GertrudeAthertonpro- nounces her novel Black Oxen (1923) a ‘‘miracle [that] gushed...

...: primitivism distances American blackness from black other­ ness across the diaspora. Lancaster’s The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress argues that the economic precariousness of this era led to a key coalescence between eugen- ics, politics, and culture; the outcome is an intensified focus...

... the histories—most strikingly, that of eugenics—that inform the putatively apolitical logic of computational analysis. In this review I engage with the most revealing aspects of Amoore’s and Chun’s analyses before returning to the centrality of slum demolition to Forrester’s Urban Dynamics to consider...

... in this col- lection trace the evolution of Hayford’s insights on Melville, moving from pre- viously unpublished lectures to his most renowned critical works. Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880–1940: Essays on Ideo- logical Conflict and Complicity. Ed. Lois A. Cuddy...

... pursue fiction and poetry. ‘‘A Wind is Rising The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O’Neill. Ed. William Davies King. Cranbury, N.J.: FairleighDickinson Univ. Press. 2000. 328 pp. $49.50...

... black and white authors to demonstrate the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on the South- ern Renaissance. Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O’Neill and Agnes Boulton. By William Davies King. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2010. xix, 299 pp. $55.00. This biography...

..., they should be situated squarely in the realist tradition. A Gift of the Spirit: Reading “The Souls of Black Folk.” By Eugene Victor Wolfenstein. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2007. 172 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. Wolfenstein sets out to demonstrate the organic coherence of DuBois’s 1903...

.... By Eugene Jolas. Ed. Andreas Kramer and Rainer Rumold. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1999. xxxix, 326 pp. $30.00. ‘‘We went to the Shakespeare Bookshop in the Rue de l’Odeon and asked Sylvia Beach to speak...

... stops short of its characteristic development, it is natural that it should manifest only its most primitive functions.—Eugene Talbot, M.D., D.D.S., Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs, and Results (1898) A becoming-animal always involves a pack...

... ); eugenics and biopolitics (English 2004 ); the pathologization of Black women’s bodies (Jones 2015 ); as well as the medicalization of homosexuality and medical violence against queer embodiment (Barounis 2019 , Malatino 2019 ). The critique that I am offering is compatible with, and in fact draws...

... eugenics movement. Her discussion of early American cinema, particularly of the film A Florida Enchantment, is an impressive critique of the manner in which the anxiety around racial and sexual mixing is relieved for white...

... in an author’s writing. Topics might include intersections between women and disability through any of the follow- ing categories: the body of the aesthetic; women’s work and workplace design; reproduction rights and disability; eugenics and reform; dependency work; women and d/Deaf education...