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Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900

Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900

Williams, Sebastian

Hardcover

Series: Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures

Literary CriticismInsects & Spiders

ISBN10: 1666921297
ISBN13: 9781666921298
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 22 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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