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Mendel's theatre: Performance, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama (Gregor Mendel).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mendel's theatre: Performance, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama (Gregor Mendel)./
Author:	Wolff, Tamsen.
Description:	291 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Martin Meisel.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-04A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3048274
ISBN:	0493626891

Mendel's theatre: Performance, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama (Gregor Mendel).
Wolff, Tamsen.

Mendel's theatre: Performance, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama (Gregor Mendel). - 291 p.

Adviser: Martin Meisel.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2002.

American theatre and the American eugenics movement both reached the height of their popularity from 1910–1930. <italic>Mendel's Theatre </italic> examines forgotten affinities between these two phenomena and poses the question: how did the hereditary theory of the eugenics movement inform the structure, uses, and directions of drama and the stage?

ISBN: 0493626891Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Mendel's theatre: Performance, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama (Gregor Mendel).
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520 $a American theatre and the American eugenics movement both reached the height of their popularity from 1910–1930. <italic>Mendel's Theatre </italic> examines forgotten affinities between these two phenomena and poses the question: how did the hereditary theory of the eugenics movement inform the structure, uses, and directions of drama and the stage?
520 $a Modern dramatists found a ready resource in hereditary theory because of similar intellectual preoccupations. They shared with the eugenics movement an interest in the presence of the past in the embodied present, an abiding concern with visibility and spectatorship, curiosity over the question of autonomous identity and agency, and a fascination with the processes of generational transmission.
520 $a The first chapter, “Predecessors,” explores how European playwrights Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, George Bernard Shaw, and Eugène Brieux, whose plays emphasized heredity thematically and metaphorically, fed the burgeoning American fascination with heredity and influenced modern American drama. Chapter two, “Fitter (and Fitting) Families,” analyzes the eugenicists' reliance on the stage and on audience reaction to confirm human differences, in events ranging from the Fitter Family Contests held at fairs nationwide to eugenic propaganda plays.
520 $a Major and connected dramatists Susan Glaspell and Eugene O'Neill are the subjects of chapters three and four, entitled “Experimental Breeding Ground” and “Plotting Genetic Family Secrets.” In what ways is the originality of these playwrights traceable to their simultaneous assimilation of and resistance to eugenic ideas and rhetoric? The answer lies in their creation of new dramatic forms, notably Glaspell's <italic>The Verge</italic> (1921) and O'Neill's <italic>Strange Interlude</italic> (1928).
520 $a Chapter five, “A Genealogy of American Entertainment,” follows with a reading of Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern's musical, <italic> Show Boat</italic>. In itself a history of American entertainment from the 1880s to the year of its presentation in 1927, the musical is girded by contemporary beliefs about race and heredity. A final coda locates similar patterns in the work of more recent playwrights like Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Throughout, <italic>Mendel's Theatre</italic> means what it says. The ideas that heredity illuminates for modern American drama are enduring ones.
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