Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics Between Romanticism and Liberalism

by Robert Mitchell and Robert Mitchell

Book Overview

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 range of elements of modern literature, from character-systems to free indirect discourse, are closely intertwined with Romantic-era liberalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823294595
• ISBN13: 9780823294596
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"