Cristin Ellis

Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cristin Ellis is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780823278442
• ISBN-10: 0823278441
• Artikelnr.: 50499050

Autorenporträt

Cristin Ellis is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Beyond Recognition: The Problem of Antebellum Embodiment
1. Animal: Racial Science and the Problem of Human Equality
2. Vegetable: Evolution and the Problem of Human Agency
3. Cosmos: Bioelectricity and the Problem of Human Meaning
4. Posthumanism and the Problem of Social Justice (Race and Materiality in
the Twenty-first Century)
Coda. After Romantic Posthumanism
Notes
Works Cited
Index