The biopolitics of feeling : race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century / Kyla Schuller.

Author/Creator:

Schuller, Kyla, 1977- author.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Series:

ANIMA (Duke University Press)
Anima

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (284 pages).

Subjects:

Sentimentalism in literature -- History -- 19th century.
Emotions in literature -- History -- 19th century.
Eugenics in literature -- History -- 19th century.
Sex role -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Contents:

Introduction: Sentimental biopower
Taxonomies of feeling: sensation and sentiment in evolutionary race science
Body as text, race as palimpsest: Frances E. W. Harper and black feminist biopolitics
Vaginal impressions: gyno-neurology and the racial origins of sexual difference
Incremental life: biophilanthropy and the child migrants of the lower east side
From impressibility to interactionism: W. E. B. du Bois, black eugenics, and the struggle
Against genetic determinisms
Epilogue: The afterlives of impressibility.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0822372355
9780822372356
9780822369233
9780822369530

OCLC:

982534455

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