Otherness, Cloning, and Morality in John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
| dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage | 547 | en_US |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.issue | 4 | en_US |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage | 560 | en_US |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.volume | 43 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Hansen, Solveig Lena | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-27T09:45:27Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-28T05:57:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-27T09:45:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | en_US |
| dc.date.updated | 2023-03-25T17:23:06Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The British writer John Wyndham (1903–1969) explored societal effects of surprising or mystical events. A paradigmatic example is The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which portrays identical-looking children born without sexual intercourse. I propose a reading strategy that focuses on the fictional spatial order and analyses how the construction of the children’s otherness interferes with the village’s demarcation. Furthermore, I interpret the mysterious pregnancies as a reference to basic embryo research in the 1950s – cloning. Finally, I scrutinize Wyndham’s negotiation of utilitarianism throughout the novel and his critique of truly utilitarian decisions that are based on constructions of Otherness. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1018) | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10912-021-09708-z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2907 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.relation.issn | 1041-3545 | en_US |
| dc.relation.journal | Journal of Medical Humanities | en_US |
| dc.rights | L::CC BY 4.0 | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject.ddc | ddc:820 | en_US |
| dc.subject.field | englishstudies | en_US |
| dc.subject.field | literarystudies | en_US |
| dc.title | Otherness, Cloning, and Morality in John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) | en_US |
| dc.type | article | en_US |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
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