Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, or the thing at hand
- Chapter 1 Toward an anthropologic: poetry, literature, and the discourse of the species
- Chapter 2 Do rustics think?: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the problem of a “human diction”
- Chapter 3 Literate species: populations, “humanities,” and the specific failure of literature in Frankenstein
- Chapter 4 The “arithmetic of futurity”: poetry, population, and the structure of the future
- Chapter 5 Dead poets and other romantic populations: immortality and its discontents
- Epilogue: Immortality interminable: the use of poetry for life
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, or the thing at hand
- Chapter 1 Toward an anthropologic: poetry, literature, and the discourse of the species
- Chapter 2 Do rustics think?: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the problem of a “human diction”
- Chapter 3 Literate species: populations, “humanities,” and the specific failure of literature in Frankenstein
- Chapter 4 The “arithmetic of futurity”: poetry, population, and the structure of the future
- Chapter 5 Dead poets and other romantic populations: immortality and its discontents
- Epilogue: Immortality interminable: the use of poetry for life
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM
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- Romanticism and the Human SciencesPoetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species, pp. 227 - 267Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000