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"No Fellow Soul or Human Thing": Influences of the Eugenic Imagination in Horror Fiction of the Fin de Siecle
"No Fellow Soul or Human Thing": Influences of the Eugenic Imagination in Horror Fiction of the Fin de Siecle
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105231
- ISBN
- 9798291567203
- DDC
- 000
- 저자명
- Puckett, Torre.
- 서명/저자
- No Fellow Soul or Human Thing: Influences of the Eugenic Imagination in Horror Fiction of the Fin de Siecle
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Michigan, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 232 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-02, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Kuppers, Petra.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation reads anglophone horror fiction from the fin-de-siecle alongside the history and theory of eugenics-a pseudoscience that advocates for humans to guide the course of their own evolution through selective reproductive practices. With the goal of furthering the undertheorized intersection between disability and horror studies, I contend that anglophone horror fiction from the 1890s and the rhetoric of eugenics are engaged in similar projects. Both are invested in policing reproductive contact between the idealized human and the undesirable Other (figured by horror fiction as the "monstrous" and by eugenic theory as the "dysgenic," both of which categories operate as functional placeholders for disability). Both discourses rely on a mix of narratives-for eugenicists, often curated from the findings of spurious research or misinterpretations of more rigorous work to bolster the foregone conclusions of eugenic logic-and affective appeals to infect readers with their own impulse to reject the monstrous-dysgenic. However, the excesses of signification and emotion upon which these rhetorical strategies rely can inadvertently slide sideways into a kind of perverse appeal, undermining their project of alienation. The discourses of horror fiction and eugenic rhetoric both provide outlets through which to engage with emotions and beliefs that feel inassimilable in real life: upsetting ones like overwhelming disgust, terror, discriminatory phobias, or fear for the future, but also ones whose seductiveness we would wish to declaim, like the appeal of aberrant sexuality or taboo behavior. Simultaneously, these discourses appeal to readers by offering a sense of control over these overpowering feelings, the ability to manage them by closing the book or employing the tools of eugenic "science" to take hold of the otherwise uncontrollable human evolutionary future.Texts under consideration include H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895); Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan (1894), "The Novel of the Black Seal" (from The Three Impostors, 1895) and "The Shining Pyramid" (1894); Richard Marsh's The Beetle (1897); Robert W. Chambers' "The Repairer of Reputations" (from The King in Yellow, 1895); and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water (2017).
- 일반주제명
- Science history
- 일반주제명
- Literature
- 일반주제명
- Language
- 일반주제명
- Disability studies
- 키워드
- Eugenics
- 키워드
- Fin-de-siecle
- 키워드
- Horror fiction
- 키워드
- Disability
- 기타저자
- University of Michigan English Language & Literature
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-02A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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