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Nathalie Saudo-Welby

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Nathalie Saudo-Welby, Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Jack and Jekyll
La dégénérescence en Grande-Bretagne 1880-1914
Degeneration in Great-Britain 1880-1914
Signes
Late nineteenth century Great-Britain was haunted by a fear of degeneration which confusedly merged concerns about morbid heredity, "racial decline" and social pathology. Degeneration discourse became the common ground shared by alarmist pseudo-scientific texts and Gothic fiction.