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Proved Upon Our Pulses : = Romanticism and the Life of Things Today.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Proved Upon Our Pulses :/
Reminder of title:	Romanticism and the Life of Things Today.
Author:	Cannavino, Thomas Patrick.
Description:	1 online resource (253 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-11A(E).
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
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ISBN:	9780355061314

Proved Upon Our Pulses : = Romanticism and the Life of Things Today.
Cannavino, Thomas Patrick.

Proved Upon Our Pulses :Romanticism and the Life of Things Today. - 1 online resource (253 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation is a work of literary and cultural history focusing on late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century poetics, life sciences, and surgical practices in Britain as a strategy to better understand two major phenomena of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in the United States: an intensified appetite for depersonalized neo-vitalism in the theoretical humanities and a normative bioethics that tends occasionally toward the sacralization of body parts. It argues that to revisit Romantic concepts of the body and "life itself" exposes some of the neo-Romantic features of American biomedical discourse. The dissertation develops a typology to understand contemporary crises of the body (e.g., genetic engineering, brain death, cadaveric organ donation, etc.) in terms comparable to the various Romantic ideologies and understandings of life, concluding that the British Romantic period gave crucial shape to a rhetoric of biotechnological anxiety that came to a head in the American postwar period.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355061314Subjects--Topical Terms:

835159
Comparative literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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520 $a The first chapter, "Stirrings of Life: Romanticism, Agrarianism, and the New Criticism", constructs a matrix of discourses, including Romantic writing on life, early twentieth-century vitalism, reactionary agrarianism in the American South, and organicist literary theory, to trace the emergence of American neo-vitalism from the first decade of the twentieth century through the beginning of the Cold War. The second chapter, "Cold War Romanticism and the American 'Culture of Life'", accounts for the co-development of "the Romantic ideology" and twentieth-century neo-vitalism in the United States by focusing on dominant paradigms of literary criticism and history during the Cold War era.
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