Romanticism and the Human Sciences : Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species

Omtale

This book, published in 2000, examines the relationship between British Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane offers original readings of major works in the Romantic canon, focusing on their engagement with the philosophical, political and anthropological writing of pre-eminent theorists such as Malthus, Godwin, Burke and others.