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

• Autore: Berger Jason <1976->
• 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 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
• ISBN: 0-8232-8777-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824799803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II