Editorial: Cambridge University Press
Colección: Cambridge studies in nineteenth century literature
Número de páginas: 264 págs. 15.2 x 22.9 cm
Fecha de edición: 29-02-2024
EAN: 9781009409957
ISBN: 978-1-009-40995-7
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
Principles of species taxonomy were contested ground throughout the nineteenth century, including those governing the classification of humans. Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy was a literary and cultural project as much as a scientific one. His investigation explores animal species in Romantic writers including Gilbert White and Keats, taxonomies in Victorian lyrics and the nonsense botanies and alphabets of Edward Lear, and species, race, and other forms of aggregated life in Darwin's writing, showing how the latter views these as shaped by unconscious agency.