The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

by Kyla Schuller

Book Overview

In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility--the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences--to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary cultures to reveal how biopower emerged within the discourses and practices of sentimentalism. Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822369532
• ISBN13: 9780822369530
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"