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“Electrical Nutrition and Glandular Control”: Eugenics, Progressive Science, and George Schuyler’s Black No More
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
... investment in eugenic science as a tool of social reform. The novel draws on popular scientific theories of human perfection—electric medicine, hygienic nutrition, and glandular theory—to envision a mode of technological reproduction that troubles eugenic theories of biological inheritance and parodies...
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Gertrude Stein’s Baroque Beats: Measuring Counterpoint and the Science of Rhythm
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2025) 71 (1): 59–86.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Yvette Mylett At the turn of the twentieth century, discourses of rhythm came to stand in for an embodied self underwritten by scientific understandings of music. This article demonstrates how Stein’s work complicates our understanding of this connection, in The Making of Americans...
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The Modern Plantation Empire and Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
... that the plantation represents a prototypically modern regime. Reading Tropic Death through the lens of this critical tradition illuminates Walrond’s grappling with the persistent postslavery legacy of the plantation as a transnational, technological, scientific, and essentially capitalist institution...
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“Words Cluster like Chromosomes”: Marianne Moore and Poetic-Genetic Origination
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 239–260.
Published: 01 September 2024
... origin stories—like the Christian story of the fall—and as generative for her poetics, offering a model for a poetics of iterative and continual origination. Heather Cass White has suggested that the future of Moore criticism depends on recognizing how two schools—“the scientific Moore...
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Numb Modernism: Sentiment and the Intellectual Left in Tess Slesinger’s The Unpossessed
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 239–266.
Published: 01 September 2017
... among New York intellectuals who ineffectually conspire to found a radical magazine. Although the novel has typically been read as a roman à clef, its broader target becomes evident when positioned in relation to masculinist orthodoxies of objectivity and scientific materialism that dominated American...
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“Pigeons” and the Future of Moore Criticism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 385–404.
Published: 01 December 2017
... that those issues have seemed separate only because critics have thus far had an incomplete view of Moore’s work in the 1930s, the decade in which they converge. “Pigeons,” it concludes, is the salient poem for seeing the Protestant Moore and the scientific Moore come together in a deep exploration...
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“Education of an Amphibian”: Anachrony, Neoteny, and Bildung in Huxley’s Eyeless in Gaza
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 403–428.
Published: 01 December 2016
... characteristics), a phenomenon famously studied in axolotls by Huxley’s brother Julian and widely heralded in the 1920s and 1930s as the key to human evolutionary and social success. Huxley’s scientific engagements in Eyeless in Gaza may be particularly sophisticated, but, as I conclude, other modernists and more...
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Animal Subjects: Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism , by Caroline Hovanec
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 June 2020
.... The chapter offers a welcome reminder of Wells’s fin-de-siècle stories, persuasively relating their scientific themes to his equivocations about British and human exceptionalism. It beautifully situates the stories in the context of biology’s role in colonial management and links their anticolonial energies...
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Religion and Science in the Making of Modernist Bodies
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Carrie J. Preston Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse: H. D., Loy, and Toomer , by Vetter Lara , Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 . 219 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Review
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Darwin at the Edge of the Visible
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 640–644.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to photography and scientific illustration makes some
important arguments relevant for literary scholars interested in Victorian
visual culture in general and Darwin in particular. Prodger’s main focus
is on the dialectical relation between Darwin’s work and nineteenth-
century photography...
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On the Graphic in Postmodern Theoretical Writing
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 372–379.
Published: 01 December 2011
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scientific, Foucault argues, the abyss between words and things leads
instead to the construction of a neutralized language, one that would
be so thoroughly stripped of accidents and alien elements that “it could
become the exact reflection, the perfect double, the unmisted mirror...
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Optical Impersonality: Science, Images, and Literary Modernism by Christina Walter
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 345–349.
Published: 01 September 2016
... with an old notion of personality” (25). She then insists that modernist impersonality has more to do with exploring the essence of personality and directs scholars to consider the modernists’ turn toward optical science and the visual-scientific vernacular as a means of creating what she describes as optical...
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Lawrence’s Bildungsroman and the Science of Sexual Development
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 273–304.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the beginning of the twentieth century depict,
from different vantage points, a gap between childhood experience and
adulthood that emerged in literary and scientific discourse concurrently.
In both texts, any connection between childhood and adulthood lacks
narrative coherence. For Lawrence’s Paul...
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Golding and Huxley: The Fables of Demonic Possession
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 311–327.
Published: 01 September 2000
... world, his own
virtual reality. Free Fall (1959) had more obviously employed scientific meta
phor—the state of free fall or freedom from gravitational law—to describe
the moral drift and lawlessness of the narrator, Sammy Mountjoy; and his
mentor, the science teacher Nick Shales, is found...
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Monstrosity on Trial: The Case of Naked Lunch
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2006
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deviance. Although the concept had arisen in European psychiatric dis
course toward the end of the nineteenth century, a complex combination
of scientific, legal, social, and political changes helped to transform it dur
ing this period from a condition to an identity. Originally a nonsexual...
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Ulysses and the Rhetoric of Cartography
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 164–192.
Published: 01 June 2003
... and space, Joyce’s writing is equated with the rigorous
method and precision of scientific practice. The true modernist auteur,
Budgen’s account suggests, is no longer merely a writer fabricating sto
ries from the stuff of imagination but a cartographer ordering the world
according to the rigor...
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Rewriting Nature Tourism in “an Age of Violence”: Tactical Collage in Marianne Moore’s “An Octopus”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 285–315.
Published: 01 September 2005
... perspectives to engage in a particular critique
regarding nature, American tourism, scientific knowledge, and language
itself. Such a critique is suggested by Moore’s 1923 notebook, which
envisioned “An Octopus” and “Marriage” as a single poem, beginning as
follows...
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Mrs. Dalloway ’s Animals and the Humanist Laboratory
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2012
... the anthropocentric moorings of
subjectivity itself.
For Woolf, as for Septimus, Darwin’s evolutionary theory provided
the conceptual apparatus for thinking “scientifically” about the natural
continuum of life, even as it supplied a vocabulary for asserting and ar-
ticulating differences within...
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“The Ingenious Unravelling of Evidence”: Empathy, Extinction, and Wells’s The Croquet Player
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 261–288.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., and the less scientific search for imagined or exotic animals continues even as the already remote possibility of finding such creatures diminishes as diverse habitats disappear. Similarly, apocalyptic narratives increase even as we collectively behave as if our actions do not hasten our demise, while...
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Modernism: Evolution of an Idea by Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers, Modernism’s Print Cultures by Faye Hamill and Mark Hussey, Modernism, Science, and Technology by Mark S. Morrison
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 461–472.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to be slightly different from the two books I have discussed above. Morrison seeks to rediscover a moment before C. P Snow’s famous “two cultures” argument of 1959, and to reanimate the centrality of scientific and technological ideas to the development of modernism as an artistic and literary movement...
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