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UNINA9910166648303321 |
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Autore |
Schillings Sonja |
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Titolo |
Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / / Sonja Schillings |
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Hanover, N.H. : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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9781512600179 |
9781512600155 |
9781512600162 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 287 pages) |
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Collana |
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Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civilization - Philosophy - History |
Violence - Philosophy |
Pirates in literature |
English literature - History and criticism |
Violence in literature |
American fiction - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- The emperor and the pirate: legitimate violence as a modern dilemma. Augustine of Hippo: The city of God; Charles Johnson: A general history of the pyrates; Charles Ellms: The pirates' own book -- Race, space, and the formation of the hostis humani generis constellation. Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional |
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