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

Schuller, Kyla, 1977- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2018

xi, 282 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: The biopolitics of feeling / Schuller, Kyla (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-8223-6953-0 ( : pbk.); 978-0-8223-6923-3 ( : hardcover)

978-0-8223-7235-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2017025273

9780822369530

OCoLC: 1013165128     

LC 58610      Ähnliche Literatur

PN56.S475

*USA ; Wissenschaftsentwicklung ; Biologismus ; Literatur ; Gefühl <Motiv> ; Geschlechterverhältnis <Motiv> ; Geschichte 1800-1900     Zum Register

LOC-SH: 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 ; 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

Emotions in literature ; Eugenics in literature ; Literature and science ; Sentimentalism in literature ; Sex role

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.