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"No Fellow Soul or Human Thing": Influences of the Eugenic Imagination in Horror Fiction of the Fin de Siecle
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"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.
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