Infectious Liberty Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism

• Main Author: Mitchell, Robert (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Fordham University Press 2021
• Series: Lit Z
• Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Social theory; History of science; Language & Literature; British Studies; European Studies; Sociology; History of Science & Technology
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Infectious Liberty 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 ran...