Infectious Liberty : Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism / / Robert Mitchell.

"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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Fordham University Press,, 2021.
©2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Lit Z
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of 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