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

"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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ellis, Cristin, 1978- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, [2018]
Édition:First edition.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.