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

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 282 pages :) illustrations Series Anima ANIMA (Duke University Press) 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 03, 2018) Subject Emotions in literature -- History -- 19th century Eugenics in literature -- History -- 19th century Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 19th century Sentimentalism in literature -- History -- 19th century Sex role -- History -- 19th century Emotions in literature. Eugenics in literature. Literature and science. Sentimentalism in literature. Sex role. United States. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2017043095 ISBN 0822372355 9780822372356

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