Vorwort
Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.

Autorentext
Matthew Rowlinson is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Real Money and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Tennyson's Fixations: Psychoanalysis and the Topics of the Early Poetry (1994). His edition of Tennyson's In Memoriam was published in 2014.

Klappentext

"Documenting a nineteenth-century crisis in the species concept, Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy is a literary as well as a scientific project."--

Inhalt

List of figures; Preface and acknowledgements; Note on citations; Introduction: method and field; Part I. Species, Lyric, and Onomatopoeia: 1. Species lyric; 2. 'How can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?' Species poetics, onomatopoeia, and birdsong; 3. Onomatopoeia, nonsense, and naming: species poetics after Darwin's Origin; Part II. How Did Darwin Invent the Symptom?: 4. Darwin's unconscious: history, the work of the negative, and natural selection; 5. Foreign bodies: the human species and its symptom; Part III. Societies of blood; 6. 'Whose blood is it?' Economies of blood in mid-Victorian poetry and medicine; 7. The totem and the vampire: species-identity in anthropology, literature, and psychoanalysis; Endnotes; Works cited; Index.