Mendel's theatre : heredity, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | German English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009
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| Serie: | Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
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Sommario:
- Predecessors : Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Brieux, and heredity
- From peas to people : theatre and the American eugenics vement
- Experimental breeding ground: Susan Glaspell, mutation, maternity, and The verge
- Branching out from the family tree : bloodlines and Eugene O'Neill's Strange interlude
- A genealogy of American theatre : Show boat, Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel, and the black body