Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism

Robert Mitchell

Open Access Published by Fordham University Press 2021

Infectious Liberty

Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism

Robert Mitchell

In the series Lit Z

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294619

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About this book

Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era debates and their literary consequences.

The book is clear but sophisticated in working across literature, history, social theory, and political economy.

Author / Editor information

Mitchell Robert :

Robert Mitchell is Marcello Lotti Professor and Chair of English at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory. His most recent book, Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature, won the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize and the BSLS Book Prize.Robert Mitchell is Marcello Lotti Professor and Chair of English at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory. His most recent book, Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature, won the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize and the BSLS Book Prize.

Reviews

Amanda Jo Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley:
“Infectious Liberty generatively reconceives Romantic literature as a set of counter-hegemonic techniques of biopolitical experimentation. Casting Romanticism as an attempt ‘to steer the biopolitical techniques of liberalism toward more liberatory shores,’ Mitchell uncovers resources for our own grasp of neoliberalism and its relation to ecological crisis. In so doing, his scholarship serves the immense purpose of reconnecting the study of Romantic literature to each of the disciplinary domains that cohere, transformed, in Foucault's theory of biopolitics.”

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	v
Preface Open Access Download PDF	vii
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I: Romanticism, Biopolitics, and Literary Concepts
1. Biopolitics, Populations, and the Growth of Genius Open Access Download PDF	23
2. Imagining Population in the Romantic Era Frankenstein, Books, and Readers Open Access Download PDF	50
3. Freed Indirect Discourse Biopolitics, Population, and the Nineteenth- Century Novel Open Access Download PDF	77
Part II: Romanticism and the Operations of Biopolitics
4. Building Beaches Global Flows, Romantic- Era Terraforming, and the Anthropocene Open Access Download PDF	113
5. Liberalism and the Concept of the Collective Experiment Open Access Download PDF	148
6. Life, Self- Regulation, and the Liberal Imagination Open Access Download PDF	186
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	231
Notes Open Access Download PDF	233
Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	291
Index Open Access Download PDF	313

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 9

eBook

Published: March 24, 2021
ISBN: 9780823294619