TY - BOOK AU - Berger,Jason TI - Xenocitizens: Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America SN - 9780823287772 PY - 2020///] CY - New York, NY PB - Fordham University Press KW - American Studies KW - Literary Studies KW - Philosophy & Theory KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory KW - bisacsh KW - Harriet Beecher Stowe KW - Henry David Thoreau KW - Margaret Fuller KW - Martin Delany KW - Nineteenth-century American literature KW - Ralph Waldo Emerson KW - William Wells Brown KW - antebellum U.S KW - ecology KW - liberalism KW - neoliberalism KW - ontology N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Xenocitizens --; Part I: Illiberal Ontologies --; 1. Emerson’s Operative Mood --; 2. Agitating Margaret Fuller --; Part II: Illiberal Ecologies --; 3. Thoreau’s Militant Vegetables --; 4. Unadjusted Emancipations --; Epilogue: Care, There and Now --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - In Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal–humanist perspectives. Through the concept of the xenocitizen, a synthesis of the terms “xeno,” which connotes alien or stranger, and “citizen,” which signals a naturalized subject of a state, Berger uncovers realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant paradigms. Innovatively re-orienting our thinking about traditional nineteenth-century figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as well as formative writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin R. Delany, Margaret Fuller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Xenocitizens glimpses how antebellum thinkers formulated, in response to varying forms of oppression and crisis, startlingly unique ontological and social models as well as unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change. In doing so, Berger offers us a different nineteenth century—pushing our imaginative and critical thinking toward new terrain UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823287772?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823287772 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823287772/original ER -