"Documenting a nineteenth-century crisis in the species concept, Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy is a literary as well as a scientific project."--
"Documenting a nineteenth-century crisis in the species concept, Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy is a literary as well as a scientific project."--
Matthew Rowlinson is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Real Money and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Tennyson's Fixations: Psychoanalysis and the Topics of the Early Poetry (1994). His edition of Tennyson's In Memoriam was published in 2014.
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List of figures Preface and acknowledgements 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 Endnotes Works cited Index.
List of figures Preface and acknowledgements 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 Endnotes Works cited Index.
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