JOURNAL ARTICLE

All Winged Their Supermen: Mina Loy, Olive Moore, and the Transhumanist Imagination.

  • Published In: ELH, 2023, v. 90, n. 4. P. 1159 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Linett, Maren 3 of 3

Abstract

Recent scholarship has demonstrated some of the ways modernism depends on eugenic thinking. Exploring similarities and differences between eugenics and early transhumanism, this article identifies in modernist literature a strand of more radical transhumanist desire. Looking in particular at Mina Loy's poems "Parturition" and "Songs to Joannes" and Olive Moore's novel Spleen , it argues that these texts turn the modernist call to "make it new" on human beings ourselves, as Loy and Moore imagine maternity as a means to advance evolution, if only it could transcend the disappointing reproducibility of the human being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:ELH. 2023/12, Vol. 90, Issue 4, p1159
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0013-8304
  • DOI:10.1353/elh.2023.a914019
  • Accession Number:174099173
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