Peopling the world : representing human mobility from Milton to Malthus /

"This book discusses human mobility from Milton to Malthus. Each chapter of focuses on a group of subjects vulnerable to coerced mobility: the landless poor (Chapter 1); the native Irish (Chapter 2); army veterans (Chapter 3); the rural poor displaced by enclosure (Chapter 4); the Scots (Chapte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sussman, Charlotte (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
1700-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Population in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Émigration et immigration dans la littérature.
Population dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Modern > 18th century .
British colonies
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration in literature
English literature
Population
Population in literature
Auswanderung.
Einwanderung.
Auswanderung > Motiv.
Bevölkerung > Motiv.
Great Britain > Population > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Great Britain
Daniel Defoe.
John Milton.
Jonathan Swift.
Mary Shelley.
Oliver Goldsmith.
Paradise Lost.
Sir Walter Scott.
The Heart of Midlothian.
The Last Man.
Thomas Malthus.
essay on the principle of population.
overpopulation.
useless population.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Race to Fill the Earth: Mobility and Fecundity in Paradise Lost
  • The Afterlives of Political Arithmetic in Defoe and Swift
  • The Veteran's Tale: War, Mobile Populations, and National Identity
  • Remembering the Population: Goldsmith and Migration
  • The Emptiness at The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration, and Population
  • "Islanded in the World": Cultural Memory and Human Mobility in The Last Man
  • Prospects of the Future: Malthus, Shelley, and Freedom of Movement.

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