All Winged Their Supermen: Mina Loy, Olive Moore, and the Transhumanist Imagination

• Autor: Linett, Maren
• Assuntos: American literature ; British & Irish literature ; English literature ; Evolution ; Fertility ; Genetic engineering ; Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) ; Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963) ; Irish literature ; Literature ; Marriage ; Men ; Modernism ; Novels ; Poetry ; Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) ; Transhumanism ; Women
• É parte de: ELH, 2023-12, Vol.90 (4), p.1159-1186
• Descrição: Recent scholarship has demonstrated some of the ways modernism depends on eugenic thinking. Exploring similarities and differences between eugenics and early transhumanism, this article identifies in modernist literature a strand of more radical transhumanist desire. Looking in particular at Mina Loy's poems "Parturition" and "Songs to Joannes" and Olive Moore's novel Spleen , it argues that these texts turn the modernist call to "make it new" on human beings ourselves, as Loy and Moore imagine maternity as a means to advance evolution, if only it could transcend the disappointing reproducibility of the human being.
  
• Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
  
• Idioma: Inglês