TY - GEN T1 - How the earth feels : geological fantasy in the nineteenth-century United States T2 - ANIMA (Duke University Press) A1 - Luciano, Dana LA - English PP - Durham PB - Duke University Press YR - 2024 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1408418770 AB - "By the start of the nineteenth century, the impact of the geological sciences and advancements in the field had radically expanded people's perception of the Earth's age. In How the Earth Feels, Dana Luciano maps the emergence of a "geological fantasy," in which increased knowledge of planetary life was used to racialize Native peoples as fossils and curiosities. Further, the geological fantasy served to cement the notion that the Earth had been preparing for the presence of humans, and that humans were in fact the ultimate expression of the Earth's teleological development in a both scientific and spiritual sense. Counterposing a range of texts-from early European and US geological texts to Indigenous accounts of earthquakes to African American men's anti-slavery writing featuring geological tropes-Luciano reveals the workings of the geological fantasy as it operated across the racial and biopolitical discourses of the nineteenth-century United States. Luciano offers a rich and historically nuanced account of how imagined relations with the non-human world have long served as a means of avoiding engagement with the dynamics of racial and colonial power"-- OP - 242 CN - PS217.G56 L835 2024 SN - 1478027843 SN - 9781478027843 SN - 9781478025702 SN - 1478025700 SN - 9781478020967 SN - 1478020962 KW - Geology in literature. KW - Geology : Social aspects : United States : History : 19th century. KW - Geology : United States : History : 19th century. KW - American literature : History : 19th century. KW - Géologie dans la littérature. KW - Géologie : Aspect social : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Littérature américaine : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century. KW - NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. KW - American literature KW - Geology KW - Geology in literature KW - Geology : Social aspects KW - United States KW - 1800-1899 KW - History ER -