Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century

Jenny Davidson

December, 2008
Cloth, 312 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13878-9
$32.50 / £22.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Breeding Before Biology

1. The Rules of Resemblance

2. Bent

3. Cultures of Improvement

4. A Natural History of Inequality

5. Blots on the Landscape

6. Shibboleths

Conclusion. The Promise of Perfection

Notes

Bibliography of Works Cited

Index

Related Subjects

• Cultural Studies
• European and British Literature
• European History
• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Jenny Davidson is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of two novels, Heredity and The Explosionist, and a critical work, Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen.

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