| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series ; v.Series Number 147 |
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series
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| Contents |
List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Note on citations -- Introduction: Method and field -- Part I. Species, lyric, and onomatopoeia -- 1. Species lyric -- 2. "How can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?" Species poetics, onomatopoeia, and birdsong -- 3. Onomatopoeia, nonsense, and naming : species poetics after Darwin's Origin -- Part II. How did Darwin invent the symptom? -- 4. Darwin's unconscious : history, the work of the negative, and natural selection -- 5. Foreign bodies : the human species and its symptom -- Part III. Societies of blood -- 6. "Whose blood is it?" Economies of blood in mid-Victorian poetry and medicine -- 7. The totem and the vampire : species-identity in anthropology, literature, and psychoanalysis -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
| 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
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Animal species -- Research -- History
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Animals in literature.
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Animals -- Classification -- History
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Biopolitics in literature.
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Biopolitics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Romanticism -- Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| ISBN |
9781009409940 |
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1009409948 |
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1009409964 |
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9781009409964 |
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