Xenocitizens : Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America

Title:

Author:

Berger, Jason, author.

ISBN:

9780823287772

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

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

Subject Term:

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Liberalism in literature.

Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Social change in literature.

American Studies.

Literary Studies.

Philosophy & Theory.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.

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