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| Named Person: | Geisteswissenschaften |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maureen N McLane |
| ISBN: | 0521773482 9780521773485 |
| OCLC Number: | 43245917 |
| Description: | x, 282 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Toward an anthropologic: poetry, literature, and the discourse of the species -- 2. Do rustics think?: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the problem of a "human diction" -- 3. Literate species: populations, "humanities," and the specific failure of literature in Frankenstein -- 4. "Arithmetic of futurity": poetry, population, and the structure of the future -- 5. Dead poets and other romantic populations: immortality and its discontents -- Epilogue, or Immortality interminable: the use of poetry for life. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 41. |
| Responsibility: | Maureen N. McLane. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"This study examines the dialogue between British Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers participated in a new-found consciousness of human beings as a species, by analysing their work in relation to major discourses on moral philosophy, political economy, and the emerging discipline of anthropology. The book offers original readings of canonical works, including Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, to show how the Romantics internalized and transformed ideas about the imagination, futurity, perfectibility, immortality, and population which so energized the moral and political debates of the period."--Jacket.
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- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature and anthropology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Social sciences -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Social problems in literature.
- Romanticism -- Great Britain.
- Population in literature.
- Gedichten.
- Engels.
- Romantiek.
- Antropologie.
- Geisteswissenschaften -- Literatur -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1798-1832.
- Lyrik -- englische -- Romantik.
- Lyrik -- englische -- Gesellschaft -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
- Anthropologie -- Lyrik -- englische -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
- Lyrik -- englische -- Anthropologie -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
- Literatur -- Englisch -- Menschenbild -- Geschichte -- 1798-1832.
- Humanwissenschaften.
- Geisteswissenschaften.
- Literatur.
- Romantik.
- England.
