Maureen N. McLane

Romanticism and the Human Sciences

Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species

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Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 2000, examines Romantic poetry in relation to the philosophical, political and anthropological discourse of the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780521773485
• ISBN-10: 0521773482
• Artikelnr.: 26084404

Autorenporträt

Maureen N. McLane was educated at the Universities of Harvard, Oxford, and Chicago. She is the author of Same Life: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) and Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2008). She is also co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2008). A contributing editor at the Boston Review, she was for years the chief poetry critic of the Chicago Tribune, and her articles on poetry, contemporary fiction, teaching, and sexuality have appeared in many venues, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, American Poet, the Poetry Foundation website, The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, the Chicago Review, and the Harvard Review. In 2003 she won the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing, and in 2007 she was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the NBCC. She has taught at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, MIT, and the East Harlem Poetry Project, and is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at NYU. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, American Poet, The New Yorker, Slate, Canary, Circumference, A Public Space, American Letters and Commentary, The American Scholar, New American Writing, the Harvard Review, and Jacket. Her interests include contemporary poetry, British romanticism, balladry, historiography, psychoanalysis, anthropology, American studies and Scottish studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction, or the thing at hand
1. Toward an anthropologic: poetry, literature, and the discourse of the species
2. Do rustics think? Wordworth, Coleridge, and the problem of a 'human diction'
3. Literate species: populations, 'humanities', and the specific failure of literature in Frankenstein
4. The 'arithmetic of futurity': poetry, population, and the structure of the future
5. Dead poets and other romantic populations: immortality and its discontents
Epilogue, or Immortality interminable: the use of poetry for life
Notes
Bibliography
Index.