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Pneumapolitics: The Politics of Spirit and Conversion in Antebellum Literature, 1831-1860
Pneumapolitics: The Politics of Spirit and Conversion in Antebellum Literature, 1831-1860
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- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152834
- ISBN
- 9798384485551
- DDC
- 820
- 서명/저자
- Pneumapolitics: The Politics of Spirit and Conversion in Antebellum Literature, 1831-1860
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Davis, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 179 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Ziser, Michael.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation explores the politics of spirit and processes of conversion during the antebellum period (1831-1860) and seeks to understand how such a politics came to shape ideas of race, gender, sexuality, family, citizenship, and nation in the U.S. By building upon Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics, this study introduces and develops a corollary term, pneumapolitics, that foregrounds the influence of Puritanism and Protestantism, more broadly, along with their shared emphasis on processes of spiritual conversion in order to tell a story about the emergence of American secularity that accounts for its religious specificity. While the genre of the "conversion narrative" serves as an important textual resource for understanding the structural elements of Protestant spiritual conversions in the U.S., exclusively focusing attention there ultimately belies the ways that processes of conversion exceeded that narrow context to influence nearly every aspect of antebellum culture. Within a Protestant frame, conversion, on one hand, acts as a spiritual technology for cultivating the subjective interior of an individual to align their beliefs with particular moral, theological, and legal systems and, on the other hand, serves as an ideological conduit through which these beliefs evolve in response to historical, political, and social pressures and pass from one generation to the next. While a primary aim of this dissertation is to uncover how hegemonic power structures operated to maintain patriarchal hierarchies of authority in social and political life from the colonial period to the antebellum era, its other central objective is to illuminate how pneumapolitics itself functioned as a discursive crucible in and through which the very idea of the "spiritual" was forged. Each of the literary artifacts in this project engages with and challenges the hegemonic structures that attempted to define and dictate the contours of spiritual life during the antebellum period and serves as an analytical cipher through which the operational patterns of those prevailing structures come more clearly into view. By highlighting an archive of spiritual resistance, this dissertation hopes to underscore how the dialectic relationship between competing concepts of "spirit" and conversion continue to profoundly influence social and political life in the U.S. by serving as discursive channels for both regimes of oppression and visions of liberation.
- 일반주제명
- American literature
- 일반주제명
- Religious history
- 일반주제명
- LGBTQ studies
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 키워드
- Antebellum
- 키워드
- Conversion
- 키워드
- Pneumapolitics
- 키워드
- Secularism
- 키워드
- Spirit
- 키워드
- Protestants
- 기타저자
- University of California, Davis English
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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