Breeding:
Davidson, Jenny
Breeding: a partial history of the eighteenth century / Jenny Davidson - New York : Columbia University Press, c2009. - xviii, 292 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Breeding Before Biology -- The Rules of Resemblance -- Why Children Look Like Their Fathers -- The Rules of Resemblance -- "Nature's Bastards" -- "Her Royal Image Stampt on Thee" -- Bent -- The Blank Slate -- Sinners by Descent -- "A Meer Errant Cat" -- Cultures of Improvement -- Deucalion's Kin -- "A Living Magazine" -- "A Perfect Yahoo" -- The Perfectibility Problem -- "Properties Descend!" -- "Ascertaining What Species Can Procreate Together" -- Differences of Climate -- "The Management of Human Creatures" -- Crabs and Brambles -- A Natural History of Inequality -- The Difference Between One Man and Another -- "We Are Born Twice Over" -- "Nature's Own Pencil" -- The Natural Inequality of Man -- "A Purity, Which Coarts Doo Not Always Bestow" -- Blots on the Landscape -- "This Blot in Our Country Increases" -- "The Incessant Improveableness of the Human Species" -- "Encumbering the World With Useless and Wretched Beings" -- Shibboleths -- Shibboleths -- The Blackmail of Enlightenment -- Conclusion: The Promise of Perfection. Introduction. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6.
9780231138789
English Literature--History and Criticism
Breeding--Philosophy--History--Great Britain
Education and Heredity--Philosophy--History
Nature and Nurture--Philosophy--History--Great Britain
Breeding in Literature
Heredity in Literature
Biology in Literature
Eugenics in Literature
Eugenics--History
Literature and science--History--Great Britain
809.93353 / DAV/B
Breeding: a partial history of the eighteenth century / Jenny Davidson - New York : Columbia University Press, c2009. - xviii, 292 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Breeding Before Biology -- The Rules of Resemblance -- Why Children Look Like Their Fathers -- The Rules of Resemblance -- "Nature's Bastards" -- "Her Royal Image Stampt on Thee" -- Bent -- The Blank Slate -- Sinners by Descent -- "A Meer Errant Cat" -- Cultures of Improvement -- Deucalion's Kin -- "A Living Magazine" -- "A Perfect Yahoo" -- The Perfectibility Problem -- "Properties Descend!" -- "Ascertaining What Species Can Procreate Together" -- Differences of Climate -- "The Management of Human Creatures" -- Crabs and Brambles -- A Natural History of Inequality -- The Difference Between One Man and Another -- "We Are Born Twice Over" -- "Nature's Own Pencil" -- The Natural Inequality of Man -- "A Purity, Which Coarts Doo Not Always Bestow" -- Blots on the Landscape -- "This Blot in Our Country Increases" -- "The Incessant Improveableness of the Human Species" -- "Encumbering the World With Useless and Wretched Beings" -- Shibboleths -- Shibboleths -- The Blackmail of Enlightenment -- Conclusion: The Promise of Perfection. Introduction. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6.
9780231138789
English Literature--History and Criticism
Breeding--Philosophy--History--Great Britain
Education and Heredity--Philosophy--History
Nature and Nurture--Philosophy--History--Great Britain
Breeding in Literature
Heredity in Literature
Biology in Literature
Eugenics in Literature
Eugenics--History
Literature and science--History--Great Britain
809.93353 / DAV/B