D.H.Lawrence's Confrontation with Eugenics:From Encounter with the Pre-Darwinian Theories

本論文は20世紀英国作家D.H.ロレンス（1885-1930）における生物進化論から多岐に派生していった科学や言説の受容を考察するものである。具体的には、ダーウィン以前、地質学に始まり19世紀前半までにはすでに成立しつつあった初期進化説から、世紀末、進化理論や遺伝学から派生する形で興隆した優生学思想までを整理し、性や政治、人種問題など様々な観点から、作家の科学思想に対する理解と反応を読み取ることを本論の目的とする。The purpose of this dissertation is to focus on the English novelist D.H.Lawrence's (1885-1930) initial interest in evolutionary ideas in his early writing period in the 1910s, and then to examine how he accepts and reacts to the idea of eugenics, a scientific discourse derived from evolutionary theory in the late nineteenth century. Throughout the examination of Lawrence's acceptance of pre-Darwinian evolutionary theory to eugenic discourse, the thesis finally recognizes his own 'evolution' as a novelist and a man by assimilating scientific knowledge and by contemplating the value of human life from the perspective of sexuality, race and politics.