Antebellum posthuman : race and materiality in the mid-nineteenth century /

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"Antebellum Posthuman exposes the volatility of "the human"--torn between liberalism and empiricism--in the 1850s and traces the emergence of an antislavery materialism in antebellum literature. Placing race at the root of posthumanism's intellectual history, this study also exam...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ellis, Cristin, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, [2018]
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
1800-1899
Racism > United States > History > 19th century.
Humanism > United States > History > 19th century.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Humanisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Racism
Race relations
Social justice
Humanism
Antislavery movements
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Beyond recognition : the problem of antebellum embodiment
  • Douglass's animals : racial science and the problem of human equality
  • Thoreau's seeds : evolution and the problem of human agency
  • Whitman's cosmic body : bioelectricity and the problem of human meaning
  • Posthumanism and the problem of social justice : race and materiality in the twenty-first century
  • Coda. After romantic posthumanism.

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