Jack and Jekyll La dégénérescence en Grande-Bretagne, 1880-1914

• Autore principale: Saudo-Welby, Nathalie (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Pubblicazione: Lyon ENS Éditions 2023
• Serie: Signes
• Soggetti: Literary studies: general; Victorian literature; Edwardian literature; history of ideas; Gothic fiction
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At the end of the nineteenth century, Europe was haunted by a fear of decline that was sometimes formulated in terms of degeneration. In Great-Britain some thinkers and scientists warned against "racial decline", morbid heredity and social pathology. By exploring this context, also marked...