The Doctor's Order: Eugenic Anxiety in Henry James's Washington Square
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- other
- Published by Project MUSE in Literature and Medicine
- Vol. 15 (2) , 244-262
- https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.1996.0025
Abstract
The world of Washington Square is shaped by representations absorbed from the evolutionary biology of James's era. Through the relationship between Austin Sloper and his daughter Catherine James dramatizes and critiques these representations, suggesting how the novelist is plagued by the same epistemological and ethical problems as nineteenth-century science.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: