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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Social Darwinism"”.
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Social Darwinism and British imperialism, 1870-1900
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College Football in Turmoil: How Violence, Virility and Social Darwinism Defined College Football, 1880-1915
This study investigates the influence of the reform movement within the United States on college football between 1880 and 1915. In response to industrialization and urbanization, reform advocates used sports and athletics to develop America’s youth. Concern mounted from critics that young boys …
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Home from Away: Challenging Extinction Discourse through the Repatriation of Indigenous Beothuk Human Remains
… Canada, has persisted. This discourse of Social Darwinism (where extinction takes place within parts of the human species rather than extinction of the species) has largely been applied uncritically and unquestioningly to such peoples. Literature on “extinct” peoples like the Beothuk comes …
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Representations of Insanity in Art and Science of Nineteenth-Century France: From the Demonic to the Degenerate
… ideal. By the fin-de-siècle, the rise of social Darwinism led to theories of degeneracy, in which the insane were grouped with criminals and prostitutes as biologically deficient. The insane, through the lens of depictions of degeneracy, existed mainly in “scientific” studies and popular …
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Pax Britannica: Edward Elgar's Caractacus as a musical expression of British imperialism
… examines the evolution of Orbin as an example of Social Darwinism, one of the primary goals of the British Empire. Chapter Eight addresses the major breakdown in dramatic continuity during scenes four and five and their role in emphasizing Elgar’s portrayal of the Pax Britannica.
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Ballads, blues, and alterity
… Chapter 1, ‘“Dancing Puppets” | Nationalism, Social Darwinism, and the Transatlantic Invention of Folksong’, uncovers moments of mediation between ‘primitive’ cultures and metropolitan elites during the early twentieth century. Employing the idea of gatekeeping, I critique a genealogy of …
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Mad or Uncontrollable? Reading Female Madness in Three Gothic Texts
… You Touched My Heart.” Drawing on theories of socially constructed disability, it argues that Bertha, Antoinette, and Hortensia are framed as “mad women” not through inherent pathology, but through patriarchal violence, colonial domination, and institutional power. By integrating the social …
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Relational structures among worldview, self-view, moral inclusiveness, and moral orientation : a holistic and complementary perspective
… as relationship closeness to different social groups at expanding levels of moral inclusiveness: (1) self only, (2) family, (3) peers, (4) society, (5) humanity, (6) nature, and (7) God. Survey data were gathered from 640 Grades 8-12 students and 472 adults. Structural equation models …
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Katharine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo : an historical study
… of the historical, political, ideological, and social situation; and to read the novel in ways which reveal its reconstruction of the wider historical context. My approach is a new historicist close reading of the text. Specific events or situations are scrutinised for their power to convey …
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William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism
… moral sense. Individual progress, analogous to social progress, requires inheritance of an innate altruistic tendency, which stands in tenuous opposition to the selfish impulses that had directed human behavior for millennia. If unsupported, altruism can revert to savage animalism; therefore, …
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This Irish Fiction of Emily Lawless: a narrative analysis
… major part of late nineteenth-century political, social and cultural debate in both Ireland and Britain. Most notably, the dissident alternative aspiration which she voiced to an increasingly monologic Irish nationalism renders a study of her work indispensable to a thorough and meaningful …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… of Darwin's theories and the interpretations of Social Darwinism: What is the integrity of the human body, and what are the relevance and varieties of spiritual belief. The personal and the social issues of materiality and immateriality are present in the choice of Machen's themes and the manner …