Infectious Liberty Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism / Robert Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Robert, 1969- author.

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Series:

Lit Z

Lit z

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism in literature.

Biopolitics in literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : Fordham University Press, 2021.

New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Mitchell Robert : Robert Mitchell is Marcello Lotti Professor and Chair of English at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory. His most recent book, Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature, won the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize and the BSLS Book Prize.Robert Mitchell is Marcello Lotti Professor and Chair of English at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory. His most recent book, Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature, won the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize and the BSLS Book Prize.

Summary:

"Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era debates and their literary consequences. Through a series of careful readings, Robert Mitchell shows how a range of elements of modern literature, from character-systems to free indirect discourse, are closely intertwined with Romantic-era liberalism and biopolitics. Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century theorists of liberalism such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus drew upon the new sciences of population to develop a liberal biopolitics that aimed to coordinate differences among individuals by means of the culling powers of the market. Infectious Liberty focuses on such authors as Mary Shelley and William Wordsworth, who drew upon the sciences of population to develop a biopolitics beyond liberalism. These authors attempted what Roberto Esposito describes as an "affirmative" biopolitics, which rejects the principle of establishing security by distinguishing between valued and unvalued lives, seeks to support even the most abject members of a population, and proposes new ways of living in common. Infectious Liberty expands our understandings of liberalism and biopolitics-and the relationship between them-while also helping us to understand better both the ways in which creative literature facilitates the project of reimagining what the politics of life might consist of. Infectious Liberty is available from the publisher on an open-access basis"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Romanticism, Biopolitics, and Literary Concepts

1. Biopolitics, Populations, and the Growth of Genius

2. Imagining Population in the Romantic Era Frankenstein, Books, and Readers

3. Freed Indirect Discourse Biopolitics, Population, and the Nineteenth- Century Novel

Part II: Romanticism and the Operations of Biopolitics

4. Building Beaches Global Flows, Romantic- Era Terraforming, and the Anthropocene

5. Liberalism and the Concept of the Collective Experiment

6. Life, Self- Regulation, and the Liberal Imagination

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780823294602

0823294609

OCLC:

1245577185

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access