{"product_id":"infectious-liberty-biopolitics-between-romanticism-and-liberalism-hardback-9780823294589","title":"Infectious Liberty; Biopolitics Between Romanticism and Liberalism (Hardback) 9780823294589","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInfectious Liberty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBiopolitics Between Romanticism and Liberalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Mitchell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823294589\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 April 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 9 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInfectious Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eInfectious Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eInfectious Liberty \u003c\/i\u003eexpands our understandings of liberalism and biopolitics—and the relationship between them—while also helping us to understand better the ways creative literature facilitates the project of reimagining what the politics of life might consist of.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eInfectious Liberty \u003c\/i\u003eis available from the publisher on an open-access basis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Romanticism, Biopolitics, and Literary Concepts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Biopolitics, Populations, and the Growth of Genius   23\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Imagining Population in the Romantic Era: Frankenstein, Books, and Readers   50\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eFreed Indirect Discourse: Biopolitics, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel   77\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Romanticism and the Operations of Biopolitics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eBuilding Beaches: Global Flows, Romantic-Era Terraforming, and the Anthropocene   113\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eLiberalism and the Concept of the Collective Experiment   148\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e Life, Self-Regulation, and the Liberal Imagination   186\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   231\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   233\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/i\u003e   291\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   313\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580463051032,"sku":"9780823294589","price":96.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/infectious-liberty-biopolitics-between-romanticism-and-liberalism-hardback-9780823294589","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}