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.
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.
Charlotte Sussman is Professor of English at Duke University and author of Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833 and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1660-1789.
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
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
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