Donald Childs is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Ottawa.

"Articles on individual modernist writers outline connections between their works and eugenical thought, but Childs' study is the first full-length treatment of this issue in relation to literary modernism, and as such is a valuable contribution to the field.... a very worthwhile contribution to modernist study." Woolf Studies Annual

• Introduction; 1. Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint; 2. Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs Dalloway; 3. Body and biology in A Room of One's Own; 4. Eliot on biology and birthrates; 5. To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question; 6. Fatal fertility in The Waste Land; 7. The late eugenics of W. B. Yeats; 8. Yeats and stirpiculture; 9. Yeats and The Sexual Question; Notes; Index.

Donald Childs is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Ottawa.

"Articles on individual modernist writers outline connections between their works and eugenical thought, but Childs' study is the first full-length treatment of this issue in relation to literary modernism, and as such is a valuable contribution to the field.... a very worthwhile contribution to modernist study." Woolf Studies Annual

• Introduction; 1. Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint; 2. Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs Dalloway; 3. Body and biology in A Room of One's Own; 4. Eliot on biology and birthrates; 5. To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question; 6. Fatal fertility in The Waste Land; 7. The late eugenics of W. B. Yeats; 8. Yeats and stirpiculture; 9. Yeats and The Sexual Question; Notes; Index.

Donald Childs is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Ottawa.

"Articles on individual modernist writers outline connections between their works and eugenical thought, but Childs' study is the first full-length treatment of this issue in relation to literary modernism, and as such is a valuable contribution to the field.... a very worthwhile contribution to modernist study." Woolf Studies Annual

• Introduction; 1. Virginia Woolf's hereditary taint; 2. Boers, whores, and Mongols in Mrs Dalloway; 3. Body and biology in A Room of One's Own; 4. Eliot on biology and birthrates; 5. To breed or not to breed: the Eliots' question; 6. Fatal fertility in The Waste Land; 7. The late eugenics of W. B. Yeats; 8. Yeats and stirpiculture; 9. Yeats and The Sexual Question; Notes; Index.