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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 January 2024
      01 February 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009409940
      9781009409957
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    Book description

    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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    Contents

    • Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
      pp i-i
    • Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century literature and culture - Series page
      pp ii-ii
    • Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science - Title page
      pp iii-iii
    • Copyright page
      pp iv-iv
    • Dedication
      pp v-v
    • Epigraph
      pp vi-vi
    • Contents
      pp vii-viii
    • Figures
      pp ix-x
    • Preface and Acknowledgements
      pp xi-xv
    • Note on Citations
      pp xvi-xviii
    • Introduction - Method and Field
      pp 1-6
    • Part I - Species, Lyric, and Onomatopoeia
      pp 7-66
    • Chapter 1 - Species Lyric
      pp 9-23
    • Chapter 3 - Onomatopoeia, Nonsense, and Naming
      pp 46-66
    • Species Poetics after Darwin’s Origin
    • Part II - How Did Darwin Invent the Symptom?
      pp 67-114
    • Chapter 4 - Darwin’s Unconscious
      pp 69-93
    • History, the Work of the Negative, and Natural Selection
    • Chapter 5 - Foreign Bodies
      pp 94-114
    • The Human Species and Its Symptom
    • Part III - Societies of Blood
      pp 115-179
    • Chapter 6 - “Whose Blood Is It?”
      pp 117-149
    • Economies of Blood in Mid-Victorian Poetry and Medicine
    • Notes
      pp 180-214
    • Works Cited
      pp 215-227
    • Index
      pp 228-236
    • Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture - Series page
      pp 237-246

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