Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, or the thing at hand -- CHAPTER 1 Toward an anthropologic: poetry, literature, and the discourse of the species -- FRANKENSTEIN AND THE END OF LETTERS -- "POETRY" IS NOT "LITERATURE" -- FRANKENSTEIN: THE MARINER AS A FAILED POET -- POETRY AS AN OBJECT OF DISCOURSE: DEFINITIONS AND DISCONTENTS -- POETRY DISCOURSING: TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGIC OF IMAGINATION -- POETRY UNBOUND/REBOUND: TOWARD A DISCOURSE NETWORK -- CHAPTER 2 Do rustics think?: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the problem of a "human diction" -- FROM HUMAN DICTION TO HUMAN MIND: DO RUSTICS THINK? -- HOW RUSTICS MIGHT THINK: ABOUT MASTERS, FOR EXAMPLE -- PERSONIFICATION, IMPERSONATION, VENTRILOQUISM: THE AMBIGUOUS WORK OF POETRY -- DISCURSIVE NEGOTIATIONS: MORAL PHILOSOPHY AGAINST POETRY AGAINST MORAL PHILOSOPHY -- TELLING STORIES ABOUT OTHERS: "RUTH" AS A CRITIQUE OF ETHNOGRAPHIC SEDUCTION -- EXPERIMENTS ON THE BORDER: BALLAD MEDIATIONS -- CHAPTER 3 Literate species: populations, "humanities," and the specific failure of literature in Frankenstein -- THE RUPTURE IN THE "HUMAN" WORLD -- NATIVES OF THE WORLD -- THE SCIENCE OF EDUCATION -- ACQUIRING HUMAN BEING: "HUMANITIES" AS REMEDY -- RENOUNCING HUMAN BEING: SPECIES REVISING -- SECURING THE WORLD FOR HUMAN BEING: TOWARD A MALTHUSIAN HUMANITARIANISM -- CHAPTER 4 The "arithmetic of futurity": poetry, population, and the structure of the future -- TOWARD A DISCOURSE NETWORK: POETRY, POPULATION, AND "REFORMING THE WORLD" -- EXPERIMENTING WITH THE FUTURE: THE MORAL PHILOSOPHICAL IMPASSE OF REVOLUTION -- REVOLUTION REDUX: SHELLEY'S REVOLT OF ISLAM -- FIGURING FUTURITY: THE FUTURE'S URN -- THE THREAT OF HISTORY: FUTURITY AS "KNOWING NOT" -- ENTOMBING THE PAST: FIGURING A WAY OUT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY IMPASSE.

HYPOTHETICAL HISTORIES AND FUTURITIES: THE FUTURE OF THE EARTH -- "REFORMING THE WORLD": REALIZING THE REVOLUTIONARY FICTION -- SHELLEY'S PROMETHEUS UNBOUND: FUTURITY AS SUCCESSIVE RECONSTRUCTION -- NEW ENDINGS: RUINING RUIN AND REHABILITATING "MAN" -- MAKING POSSIBLE: POETRY AND THE DISCOURSE OF MAN -- POETIC INTERVAL, INVENTION, AND INTERVENTION -- BUT POETRY MAKES NOTHING HAPPEN: MALTHUSIAN REBUTTALS -- CHAPTER 5 Dead poets and other romantic populations: immortality and its discontents -- IMMORTALITY, NATALITY, MORTALITY: PRELIMINARIES -- IMMORTALITY IN THE MORAL PHILOSOPHICAL FIELD: PERFECTIBILITY VERSUS "CHASTIZED THINKING" -- CHAPTER XII -- IMMORTALITY AND THE STRUCTURE OF FEELING: "MODES" OF IMMORTALITY -- Mode I: Godwin's sepulchral mnemotechnics -- Mode 2: Wordsworth and the anthropologic of natality -- TOWARD WORDSWORTHIAN IMMORTALITY: NATALITY, NATIVITY, AND "VAIN PERPLEXITY" -- WORDSWORTHIAN IMMORTALITY: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NATALITY -- THE END OF WORDSWORTH AND THE END OF IMMORTALITY: WORDSWORTH'S ODE UNDONE -- SHELLEY'S GRAVE INQUIRIES: "POPULOUS SOLITUDE" AS A CRITIQUE OF ROMANTIC CONSCIOUSNESS -- OTHER POPULATIONS: "HUNGRY GENERATIONS" AND KEATS'S IMMORTALS IN PAIN -- CRITICAL MORTALITIES: DEAD POETS -- EPILOGUE Immortality interminable: the use of poetry for life -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION, OR THE THING AT HAND -- 1 TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGIC: POETRY, LITERATURE, AND THE DISCOURSE OF THE SPECIES -- 2 DO RUSTICS THINK?: WORDSWORTH, 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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