Sebastian Williams

Modernist Parasites (eBook, ePUB)

Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666921304
• Artikelnr.: 68097598

Autorenporträt

Sebastian Williams is assistant professor of English at Davis & Elkins College.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: Contagion, Pests, and Parasites in Trench Poetry
Chapter 2: "The Million Enemies of the Earth": Parasitism and Poverty in
Great Depression Literature
Chapter 3: "Monstrous Vermin": Becoming the Modernist Parasite
Chapter 4: "Parasitism & Prostitution-Or Negation": The Parasite in
Modernist Feminism
Chapter 5: The Tramp: Social Parasitism, Vagrancy, and Health
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author