Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

• Main Author: Rodriguez, Rick (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; America-Literatures.; Latin American literature.; America-History.; Literary Theory.; Comparative Literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; North American Literature.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; History of the Americas.

Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature tracks flashpoint events in U.S. history, constituting a genealogy of the effectiveness and resilience of the concept of immunity in democratic culture. Rick Rodriguez argues that following the American Revolution...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Immunity's Sovereignty
• Chapter 2: The Haitian Exception
• Chapter 3: Algerian Captivity and State Autoimmunity
• Chapter 4: Poe and Democracy's Biopolitical Immunity
• Chapter 5: Cuba and the Imperial Solution
• Chapter 6: Panic Room.