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Introduction

Further Reading

 

Documents

Edwin Lankester (1847 - 1929) Degeneration, a chapter in Darwinism (1880)
Henry Maudsley (1835 - 1918) Body and Will (1883)
G.B Barron (dates unknown) The consitutional characteristics of dwellers in large towns as relating to degeneneracy (1888)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) Art and Aesthetics?
Cesare Lombroso (1835 - 1909) The Man of Genius (1891)
Max Nordau (1849 - 1923) Degeneration (1895) English translation Extract 1
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Biographical Essays

Henry Drummond and the Development of a Theme
H. G. Wells and the uses of Degeneration in Literature

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