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

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

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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 othera 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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