Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 “Practical-Headed Judgment of a Stock-Breeder”: Sexual Selection in the Early Fiction of Jack London

Chapter 4 “Vast and Malodorous Sea”: Racial Degeneration in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss and The Scarlet Plague

Chapter 5 Eugenic Strands in the Gynaecocentric Criticism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Chapter 6 “Endowment of Motherhood”: Gilman’s Utopian Fiction

Chapter 7 “At Best Race Is a Superstition”: George S. Schuyler’s Journalistic Battles with Racial Absolutism

Chapter 8 Between “Chromatic Emancipation” and a Fascist State: Schuyler’s Black No More and Black Empire

Chapter 9 Conclusions