[Vwoolf] Google alert of the week...John Maynard Keynes and eugenics

[Alice Keane]

Thanks, Vara. This has been critiqued to some extent, but not enough, and
within Bloomsbury, it wasn't only Keynes. See, for example, Woolf's diary
entry from January 9, 1915, where she describes an unexpected crossing of
paths with residents of a local Kingston area care home: “[O]ne realized
that everyone in that long line was a miserable ineffective shuffling
idiotic creature [....] It was perfectly horrible. They should certainly be
killed.” I remember that Janet Lyon examines this in “On the Asylum Road
with Woolf and Mew,” *Modernism / modernity* 18:3 (September 2011): 551–74,
and I wonder if anyone else knows of Bloomsbury-specific criticism on the
issue?

Best,
Alice

Alice Keane
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of English
Queens College, CUNY
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367

On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 4:27 PM Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Bloomsbury Group related info. regarding John Maynard Keyne's views
> regarding eugenics:
>
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/john-maynard-keynes-was-supporter-of-racist-eugenics-visitors-to-bloomsbury-group-home-to-be-told/ar-AAKzxH9__;!!KGKeukY!iS-JzZF85FZFIahoSeJwFzYHAhw64ZD7OOCvxnh_fUvocgV5TVC5owZtIf9DWV923P8$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/john-maynard-keynes-was-supporter-of-racist-eugenics-visitors-to-bloomsbury-group-home-to-be-told/ar-AAKzxH9__;!!KGKeukY!iFweUGMy6MdbIBgH2HRUa1VD4AUWXjtkmXfDHr25utgH-0rdJ9_qafnC2oWqMB1UozI$>
>
> Best,
>
> Vara
>
> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
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> New Haven, CT 06515
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