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Romanticism and the human sciences : poetry, population, and the discourse of the species /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McLane, Maureen N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 41.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.