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Xenocitizens : illiberal ontologies in nineteenth-century America / / Jason Berger



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Autore: Berger Jason <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Xenocitizens : illiberal ontologies in nineteenth-century America / / Jason Berger Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 pages)
Disciplina: 810.93581
Soggetto topico: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century
Liberalism in literature
Social change in literature
Liberalism - United States - History - 19th century
Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: Harriet 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
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Xenocitizens  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-8777-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910478933203321
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