LEADER 03938oam 22005654a 450 001 9910485609803321 005 20231110211745.0 010 $a0-8232-9460-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823294619 035 $a(CKB)5590000000439814 035 $a(OCoLC)1245577185 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse93716 035 $a(DE-B1597)577490 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823294619 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6471460 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6471460 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000439814 100 $a20210115d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInfectious Liberty$eBiopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism /$fRobert Mitchell 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aLit z 311 $a0-8232-9461-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I: Romanticism, Biopolitics, and Literary Concepts -- $t1. Biopolitics, Populations, and the Growth of Genius -- $t2. Imagining Population in the Romantic Era Frankenstein, Books, and Readers -- $t3. Freed Indirect Discourse Biopolitics, Population, and the Nineteenth- Century Novel -- $tPart II: Romanticism and the Operations of Biopolitics -- $t4. Building Beaches Global Flows, Romantic- Era Terraforming, and the Anthropocene -- $t5. Liberalism and the Concept of the Collective Experiment -- $t6. Life, Self- Regulation, and the Liberal Imagination -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $a"Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era debates and their literary consequences. Through a series of careful readings, Robert Mitchell shows how a range of elements of modern literature, from character-systems to free indirect discourse, are closely intertwined with Romantic-era liberalism and biopolitics. Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century theorists of liberalism such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus drew upon the new sciences of population to develop a liberal biopolitics that aimed to coordinate differences among individuals by means of the culling powers of the market. Infectious Liberty focuses on such authors as Mary Shelley and William Wordsworth, who drew upon the sciences of population to develop a biopolitics beyond liberalism. These authors attempted what Roberto Esposito describes as an "affirmative" biopolitics, which rejects the principle of establishing security by distinguishing between valued and unvalued lives, seeks to support even the most abject members of a population, and proposes new ways of living in common. Infectious Liberty expands our understandings of liberalism and biopolitics-and the relationship between them-while also helping us to understand better both the ways in which creative literature facilitates the project of reimagining what the politics of life might consist of. Infectious Liberty is available from the publisher on an open-access basis"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aLit Z 606 $aLiberalism in literature 606 $aBiopolitics in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiberalism in literature. 615 0$aBiopolitics in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/008 676 $a820.9008000000 700 $aMitchell$b Robert$f1969-$0845952 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910485609803321 996 $aInfectious Liberty$91889265 997 $aUNINA