Charlotte Sussman

Peopling the World

Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading texts by Goldsmith, Malthus, Milton, Scott, Mary Shelley, Swift, and others, in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement, Charlotte Sussman traces a shift in thinking about population and mobility in Britain over the course of the long eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252026
• ISBN-10: 0812252020
• Artikelnr.: 60104587

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Sussman

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. A Race to Fill the Earth: Mobility and Fecundity in Paradise
Lost
Chapter 2. The Afterlives of Political Arithmetic in Defoe and Swift
Chapter 3. The Veteran's Tale: War, Mobile Populations, and National
Identity
Chapter 4. Remembering the Population: Goldsmith and Migration
Chapter 5. The Emptiness at The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration, and
Population
Chapter 6. "Islanded in the World": Cultural Memory and Human Mobility in
The Last Man
Chapter 7. Prospects of the Future: Malthus, Shelley, and Freedom of
Movement
Afterword
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments