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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
41. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.