Breeding
A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2015
312 pages
978-0-231-51111-7 (ISBN)
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12/2008
Columbia University Press
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Jenny Davidson is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of two novels, Heredity and The Explosionist, and a critical work, Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen.
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Acknowledgments Introduction. Breeding Before Biology1. The Rules of Resemblance2. Bent3. Cultures of Improvement4. A Natural History of Inequality5. Blots on the Landscape6. ShibbolethsConclusion. The Promise of PerfectionNotes Bibliography of Works CitedIndex
