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▼a 9780438371972 |
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▼a (MiAaPQ)AAI10846262 |
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▼a (MiAaPQ)uchicago:14538 |
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▼d 248032 |
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▼a Malinowska, Agnes. |
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▼a Technocratic Evolution: Experimental Naturalism and American Biopolitics Around 1900. |
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▼a [S.l.] :
▼b The University of Chicago.,
▼c 2018 |
| 260 | 1 |
▼a Ann Arbor :
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2018 |
| 300 | |
▼a 249 p. |
| 500 | |
▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Adviser: Robert Pippin. |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2018. |
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▼a I argue that prominent writers like Jack London, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mark Twain, and Frank Norris sought to investigate and discursively shape the newly modern nation by first settling the proper human relationship to our nonhuman others, |
| 520 | |
▼a My first chapter tracks Jack London's attempt to envision American modernity outside of the industrial city's biopolitical imperatives, which threaten to unravel the anthropocentric evolutionary order. I argue that London, in his late Sonoma fic |
| 520 | |
▼a In Chapter Two, I turn to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's effort to articulate a modern woman that would properly fulfill nature's mandate for the female organism. I find that Gilman relied on turn-of-the-century efficiency discourse to manage the sp |
| 520 | |
▼a Chapter Three focuses on Mark Twain's famous anti-imperialist politics, which, I argue, find their basis in Twain's evolutionist commitment to biological determinism and his critique of human species exceptionalism. In Part I of this chapter, I |
| 520 | |
▼a Finally, Chapter Four traces the metaphorical logic of Frank Norris's wheat commodity in The Octopus as pointing to an infinitely expansive American frontier-nation centered on the Chinese market. In Norris's 'wheat theory of politics,' the Amer |
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▼a School code: 0330. |
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▼a American literature. |
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▼a 0591 |
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▼a The University of Chicago.
▼b Social Thought. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstracts International
▼g 80-01A(E). |
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a 0330 |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2018 |
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▼a English |
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▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T15000120
▼n KERIS |
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▼a 201812
▼f 2019 |
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▼a 관리자 |