The biopolitics of feeling : race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century

The biopolitics of feeling race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century

Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility - the capacity to be affected - to expose the powerful workings of sentimental biopower in the nineteenth-century United States, uncovering a vast apparatus of sensory regulation that aimed to shape the evolution of the nat...

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1. Verfasser: Schuller, Kyla (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Durham, London Duke University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:Anima
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Sentimentalism in literature > History > Emotions in literature > Eugenics in literature > Sex role > Literature and science > United States > USA > Wissenschaftsentwicklung > Biologismus > Literatur > Gefühl > Geschlechterverhältnis > Geschichte 1800-1900
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Zusammenfassung:Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility - the capacity to be affected - to expose the powerful workings of sentimental biopower in the nineteenth-century United States, uncovering a vast apparatus of sensory regulation that aimed to shape the evolution of the national population.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xi, 282 Seiten
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ISBN:9780822369530
978-0-8223-6953-0
9780822369233
978-0-8223-6923-3