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Reproduction by design : sex, robots, trees, and test-tube babies in interwar Britain / Angus McLaren.
LIBRA PR478.F87 M37 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLaren, Angus.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology in literature.
- Reproductive technology--England.
- Reproductive technology.
- Reproduction--Social aspects--England.
- Reproduction.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Futurism (Literary movement).
- Social aspects.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 235 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Speculative literature and mechanistic progress
- "The standardized world we are facing and fearing": sex and futurist fictions
- "What is better, a car or a wife?": automobiles and modern bodies
- "A race of human machines": robots and reproduction
- Beyond the predictive: sex in real time
- "A sort of animal or mechanic immortality": glands and eugenics
- "A spinster and a syringe": debating test-tube babies
- Romantic racialism
- "Breeding a race apart from nature": ruralists and conservationists.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226560694
- 0226560694
- OCLC:
- 723529716
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