Peopling the World : : Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus / / Charlotte Sussman.
A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth centuryIn John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. B...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Introduction -- |t Chapter 1. A Race to Fill the Earth: Mobility and Fecundity in Paradise Lost -- |t Chapter 2. The Afterlives of Political Arithmetic in Defoe and Swift -- |t Chapter 3. The Veteran’s Tale: War, Mobile Populations, and National Identity -- |t Chapter 4. Remembering the Population: Goldsmith and Migration -- |t Chapter 5. The Emptiness at The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration, and Population -- |t Chapter 6. “Islanded in the World”: Cultural Memory and Human Mobility in The Last Man -- |t Chapter 7. Prospects of the Future: Malthus, Shelley, and Freedom of Movement -- |t Afterword -- |t Notes -- |t Index -- |t Acknowledgments |
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520 | |a A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth centuryIn John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement.Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with "useless" populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain's domestic and colonial territories; after 1760, a concern with the depopulation caused by emigration began to take hold. She explains this change in terms of the interrelated developments of a labor theory of value, a new idea of national identity after the collapse of Britain's American empire, and a move from thinking of reproduction as a national resource to thinking of it as an individual choice. She places Malthus at the end of this history because he so decisively moved thinking about population away from a worldview in which there was always more space to be filled and toward the temporal inevitability of the whole world filling up with people. | ||
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650 | 0 | |a Emigration and immigration in literature. | |
650 | 0 | |a English literature |y 18th century |x History and criticism. | |
650 | 0 | |a Population in literature. | |
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650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century . |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a Daniel Defoe. | ||
653 | |a John Milton. | ||
653 | |a Jonathan Swift. | ||
653 | |a Mary Shelley. | ||
653 | |a Oliver Goldsmith. | ||
653 | |a Paradise Lost. | ||
653 | |a Sir Walter Scott. | ||
653 | |a The Heart of Midlothian. | ||
653 | |a The Last Man. | ||
653 | |a Thomas Malthus. | ||
653 | |a essay on the principle of population. | ||
653 | |a overpopulation. | ||
653 | |a useless population. | ||
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