Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science Hardback
by Matthew (University of Western Ontario) Rowlinson
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
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Principles of species taxonomy were contested ground throughout the nineteenth century, including those governing the classification of humans.
Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy was a literary and cultural project as much as a scientific one.
His investigation explores animal species in Romantic writers including Gilbert White and Keats, taxonomies in Victorian lyrics and the nonsense botanies and alphabets of Edward Lear, and species, race, and other forms of aggregated life in Darwin's writing, showing how the latter views these as shaped by unconscious agency.
Engaging with theoretical debates at the intersection of animal studies and psychoanalysis, and covering a wide range of science writing, poetry, and prose fiction, this study shows the political and psychic stakes of questions about species identity and management.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2024
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- ISBN:9781009409957
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009409957
