Degeneration, Culture and the Novel, 1880-1940

Introduction 1. Degeneration 2. Biological poetics 3. Degenerate spaces: the urban crisis of the 1880s and The Mayor of Casterbridge 4. Reversionary tactics 5. Criminal degeneracy: adventures with Lombroso 6. Max Nordau and the Degeneration effect 7. Women and the disease of civilisation: George Gissing's The Whirlpool 8. The lure of pedigree and the menaces of heredity in Tess of the D'Ubervilles and Jude the Obscure 9. Race-regeneration 10. Masculinity, morbidity and medicine: Howards End and Mrs Dalloway 11. The way out is the way back: the anti-modernists 12. Postscripts Notes Bibliography Index.