Xenocitizens : : Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America / / Jason Berger.
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 naturali...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Xenocitizens
- Part I: Illiberal Ontologies
- 1. Emerson’s Operative Mood
- 2. Agitating Margaret Fuller
- Part II: Illiberal Ecologies
- 3. Thoreau’s Militant Vegetables
- 4. Unadjusted Emancipations
- Epilogue: Care, There and Now
- Notes
- Index