Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern EuropeThis distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony. Focusing specifically on the discourses that inform such genealogies, Generation and Degeneration moves from Greco Roman times to the recent past to retrace generational fantasies and discords in a variety of related contexts, from the medical to the theological, and from the