id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt xw42n586k4z Erik Larsen American Vitalism: Life, Matter, and the Crisis of American Liberalism 1904 .txt text/plain 348 10 15 American Vitalism refocuses analysis of the social crises that challenged antebellum American liberalism by investigating their connection to representations of physical nature that sharply differentiated living organisms from dead matter. Situating its discussion of racial difference within an interdisciplinary discourse on the status of life and matter, American Vitalism recasts the crisis of American liberalism as one inextricably linked to human violence against non-human nature. cache/xw42n586k4z.txt txt/xw42n586k4z.txt