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Mendel's theatre : heredity, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama
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Mendel's theatre : heredity, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama / Tamsen Wolff.
ISBN
0230615856 (alk. paper)
9780230615854 (alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Mendel's theater
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2020
Series
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index.
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.
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