Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 9781009409926
ISBN-13 : 1009409921
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Download or read book Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science written by Matthew Rowlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of species taxonomy were contested ground throughout the nineteenth century, including those governing the classification of humans. Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy was a literary and cultural project as much as a scientific one. His investigation explores animal species in Romantic writers including Gilbert White and Keats, taxonomies in Victorian lyrics and the nonsense botanies and alphabets of Edward Lear, and species, race, and other forms of aggregated life in Darwin's writing, showing how the latter views these as shaped by unconscious agency. Engaging with theoretical debates at the intersection of animal studies and psychoanalysis, and covering a wide range of science writing, poetry, and prose fiction, this study shows the political and psychic stakes of questions about species identity and management. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.


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