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    Publication date:
    11 January 2024
    01 February 2024
    ISBN:
    9781009409940
    9781009409957
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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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‘Rowlinson offers wide-ranging case studies that brilliantly reveal the deeply paradoxical and strategic ways in which the concept of species was applied. … Biopolitics and Animal Species makes a striking, poignant, and rather bleak case for the rhetorical and cultural force of the species concept in the century when it came to dominate.’

Elisha Cohn Source: Victorian Studies

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  • 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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