Degeneration, Culture and the Novel : 1880–1940 (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Degeneration; 2. Biological poetics; 3. Degenerate spaces: the urban crisis of the 1880s and The Mayor of Casterbridge; 4. Reversionary tactics; 5. Criminal degeneracy: adventures with Lombroso; 6. Max Nordau and the Degeneration effect; 7. Women and the disease of civilisation: George Gissing's The Whirlpool; 8. The lure of pedigree and the menaces of heredity in Tess of the D'Ubervilles and Jude the Obscure; 9. Race-regeneration; 10. Masculinity, morbidity and medicine: Howards End and Mrs Dalloway; 11. The way out is the way back: the anti-modernists; 12. Postscripts; Notes; Bibliography; Index.