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 is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, The City University of New York, USA.
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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.