Title Biopolitics and animal species in nineteenth century literature and science / Matthew Rowlinson

Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series ; v.Series Number 147 Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series Contents Method and field -- Species lyric -- "How can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?" Species poetics, onomatopoeia, and birdsong -- Onomatopoeia, nonsense, and naming : species poetics after Darwin's Origin -- Darwin's unconscious : history, the work of the negative, and natural selection -- Foreign bodies : the human species and its symptom -- "Whose blood is it?" Economies of blood in mid-Victorian poetry and medicine -- The totem and the vampire : species-identity in anthropology, literature, and psychoanalysis Summary "Documenting a nineteenth-century crisis in the species concept, Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy is a literary as well as a scientific project."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Animal species -- Research -- History Animals in literature. Animals -- Classification -- History Biopolitics in literature. Biopolitics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Romanticism -- Great Britain Genre/Form Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781009409940 1009409948 1009409964 9781009409964

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