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Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900 (Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures)

✍ Scribed by Sebastian Williams

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Leaves
209
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✦ Synopsis

Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900 analyzes biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and parasitology in the late nineteenth century, Sebastian Williams posits that the “parasite” came to be humanity’s ultimate other—a dangerous antagonist. But many authors such as Isaac Rosenberg, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Nella Larsen, and George Orwell reconsider parasitism. Ultimately, parasites inherently depend on others for their survival, illustrating the limits of ethical models that privilege the discrete individual above interdependent communities.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
Contagion, Pests, and Parasites in Trench Poetry
“The Million Enemies of the Earth”
“Monstrous Vermin”
“Parasitism & Prostitution-Or Negation”
The Tramp
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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