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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524901603321

Autore

Herzogenrath Bernd <1964->

Titolo

An American Body | Politic : A Deleuzian Approach / / Bernd Herzogenrath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, N.H. : , : Published by University Press of New England, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-283-87501-2

1-58465-942-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Re-mapping the transnational

Disciplina

128/.6

Soggetti

Politics and literature - United States

Literature and society - United States

Human body in literature

Political science - United States - Philosophy

Human body - Social aspects - United States

Human body - Political aspects - United States

Human body (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Project MUSE Open Access

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Body/theory/politic : body-theory -- The Puritans' two bodies -- "'physics' of power" : phase transitions and turbulence in the Antinomian controversy -- Cotton Mather : the angel and the animalcula -- "I am the poet of little things" : Walt Whitman and minor poetics/politics -- A physical theory of heredity/heresy : the education of Henry Adams -- "A sonorous people" : techno-music and the joyful body-politic.

Sommario/riassunto

A reflection on the metaphor of the body politic throughout American history