Xenocitizens returns to the nineteenth century in order to uncover realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant liberal paradigms. Examining how antebellum crises pushed writers to formulate alternative ontological and social models for personhood and sociality, Xenocitizens glimpses startlingly unique and unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change.
Xenocitizens returns to the nineteenth century in order to uncover realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant liberal paradigms. Examining how antebellum crises pushed writers to formulate alternative ontological and social models for personhood and sociality, Xenocitizens glimpses startlingly unique and unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change.
Jason Berger is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America (2012).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Xenocitizens 1 Part I: Illiberal Ontologies 1. Emerson's Operative Mood 33 2. Agitating Margaret Fuller 58 Part II: Illiberal Ecologies 3. Thoreau's Militant Vegetables 101 4. Unadjusted Emancipations 153 Epilogue: Care, There and Now 201 Notes 205 Index 279
Introduction: Xenocitizens 1 Part I: Illiberal Ontologies 1. Emerson's Operative Mood 33 2. Agitating Margaret Fuller 58 Part II: Illiberal Ecologies 3. Thoreau's Militant Vegetables 101 4. Unadjusted Emancipations 153 Epilogue: Care, There and Now 201 Notes 205 Index 279
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