03500nam 2200697 450 991079405130332120230126221623.00-8232-8777-710.1515/9780823287772(CKB)4100000011286176(MiAaPQ)EBC6220295(DE-B1597)566199(DE-B1597)9780823287772(OCoLC)1158219037(EXLCZ)99410000001128617620201011d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierXenocitizens illiberal ontologies in nineteenth-century America /Jason BergerNew York :Fordham University Press,[2020]©20201 online resource (289 pages)Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction: Xenocitizens --1. Emerson’s Operative Mood --2. Agitating Margaret Fuller --3. Thoreau’s Militant Vegetables --4. Unadjusted Emancipations --Epilogue: Care, There and Now --Notes --IndexIn Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal–humanist perspectives. Through the concept of the xenocitizen, a synthesis of the terms “xeno,” which connotes alien or stranger, and “citizen,” which signals a naturalized subject of a state, Berger uncovers realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant paradigms. Innovatively re-orienting our thinking about traditional nineteenth-century figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as well as formative writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin R. Delany, Margaret Fuller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Xenocitizens glimpses how antebellum thinkers formulated, in response to varying forms of oppression and crisis, startlingly unique ontological and social models as well as unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change. In doing so, Berger offers us a different nineteenth century—pushing our imaginative and critical thinking toward new terrain.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiberalism in literatureSocial change in literatureLiberalismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryHarriet Beecher Stowe.Henry David Thoreau.Margaret Fuller.Martin Delany.Nineteenth-century American literature.Ralph Waldo Emerson.William Wells Brown.antebellum U.S.ecology.liberalism.neoliberalism.ontology.American literatureHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryLiberalism in literature.Social change in literature.LiberalismHistoryLiterature and societyHistory810.93581Berger Jason1976-1468265MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794051303321Xenocitizens3679351UNINA