Breeding and eugenics in the American literary imagination : heredity rules in the twentieth century / Ewa Barbara Luczak.

Organic memory : history and the body in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries / Laura Otis.

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Breeding and eugenics in the American literary imagination : heredity rules in the twentieth century / Ewa Barbara Luczak.

Organic memory : history and the body in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries / Laura Otis.