Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Race That Kills Itself
  • Animating the Social Body
  • Immigration Restrictions and the Biologization of the Social Body
  • The Sexuality of Population
  • Suicide, a Biopolitical Scandal
  • Literary Counter-Conduct
  • 1 Sacrificial Ecstasy: The Bostonians, Neurasthenia, and the "Obscure Hurt"
  • "Poodle Henry James"
  • The Neurasthenic Race
  • The Wounded Body Social
  • "The Ecstasy of the Martyr"
  • Still Waiting, Princess Casamassima
  • 2 Flirting with Death: The Awakening's Liberal Erotic Economy and the Consuming Desire of New Women
  • Squandering Family Property
  • The Alien Hands of Liberalism
  • Free Erotic Economy of Creoles
  • Parthenogenesis of the New Women
  • Consummating the Consuming Desire
  • 3 The Spectral Lineage: Jack London, Teutonism, and Interspecies Kinship
  • Wolf vs. Bear
  • London's Northland Teutonism
  • Kinship in Alaska
  • Unnatural Nuptials in The Call of the Wild
  • "If the Writer Is a Sorcerer"
  • 4 Gertrude Stein's Melting Pot: Jewishness and the Excretory Pleasure of The Making of Americans
  • The Pot-au-Feu of New Immigrants
  • Recovering the Absented Presence of Jewishness
  • Denaturalizing Procreative Familialism
  • Mr. Pottie and the Fantasy of Anal Pregnancy
  • Populational Imagination of "Each One Is One"
  • Coda: Hindsight 20/20, or Asiatic Im-Personality
  • Notes
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Coda
  • Bibliography
  • Index