Disenchanted Modernity in Robert Kroetsch’s «The Studhorse Man»

This book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetsch’s The Studhorse Man , examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and socio-cultural context. Key subject headings are biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading. The overarching theme is «disenchanted modernity» in the twentieth-century, the systematic displacement of the divine and natural order by a humanly ordained social regime, and by forms of social engineering that broug