Romanticism and the human sciences : poetry, population, and the discourse of the species / Maureen N. McLane.

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McLane, Maureen N

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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 41.Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (x, 282 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0511010842
9780511010842
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9780511118517
9780521773485
0521773482
9780511484391
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9781280154737

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PR468.S6 M38 2000eb

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Contents:

1. Toward an anthropologic: poetry, literature, and the discourse of the species -- 2. Do rustics think?: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the problem of a "human diction" -- 3. Literate species: populations, "humanities," and the specific failure of literature in Frankenstein -- 4. "Arithmetic of futurity": poetry, population, and the structure of the future -- 5. Dead poets and other romantic populations: immortality and its discontents -- Epilogue, or Immortality interminable: the use of poetry for life.

Review: "This study examines the dialogue between British Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers participated in a new-found consciousness of human beings as a species, by analysing their work in relation to major discourses on moral philosophy, political economy, and the emerging discipline of anthropology. The book offers original readings of canonical works, including Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, to show how the Romantics internalized and transformed ideas about the imagination, futurity, perfectibility, immortality, and population which so energized the moral and political debates of the period."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-275) and index.

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"This study examines the dialogue between British Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers participated in a new-found consciousness of human beings as a species, by analysing their work in relation to major discourses on moral philosophy, political economy, and the emerging discipline of anthropology. The book offers original readings of canonical works, including Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, to show how the Romantics internalized and transformed ideas about the imagination, futurity, perfectibility, immortality, and population which so energized the moral and political debates of the period."--Jacket.

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