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Mendel's theatre : heredity, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama / Tamsen Wolff.
Van Pelt Library PS338.E94 W65 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolff, Tamsen.
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- Eugenics in literature.
- Heredity in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Eugenics--United States--History--20th century.
- Eugenics.
- Literature and science--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and science.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Mendel's theater
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Contents:
- Predecessors : Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Brieux, and heredity
- From peas to people : theatre and the American eugenics movement
- Experimental breeding ground : Susan Glaspell, mutation, maternity, and The verge
- Branching out from the family tree : bloodlines and Eugene O'Neill's Strange interlude
- A genealogy of American theatre : Show boat, Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel, and the black body.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230615856
- 9780230615854
- OCLC:
- 257554349
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