Antebellum posthuman : race and materiality in the mid-nineteenth century / Cristin Ellis.

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ISBN:

9780823278466

Personal Author:

Ellis, Cristin, 1978-

Publication Information:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2021]

Physical Description:

1 online resource

General Note:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Contents:

Introduction. Beyond recognition : the problem of antebellum embodiment -- Douglass's animals : racial science and the problem of human equality -- Thoreau's seeds : evolution and the problem of human agency -- Whitman's cosmic body : bioelectricity and the problem of human meaning -- Posthumanism and the problem of social justice : race and materiality in the twenty-first century -- Coda. After romantic posthumanism.

Summary:

Explores the rise of antislavery materialism in mid-nineteenth century American literature, and examines how these works placed race at the center of the history of posthumanist thought.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

Subject Term:

Racism--United States -- History 19th century

Humanism--United States -- History 19th century

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