Book contents
- Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century literature and culture
- Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Note on Citations
- Introduction Method and Field
- Part I Species, Lyric, and Onomatopoeia
- Chapter 1 Species Lyric
- Chapter 2 “How Can You Talk with a Person If They Always Say the Same Thing?”
- Chapter 3 Onomatopoeia, Nonsense, and Naming
- Part II How Did Darwin Invent the Symptom?
- Part III Societies of Blood
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Chapter 1 - Species Lyric
from Part I - Species, Lyric, and Onomatopoeia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
Book contents
- Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century literature and culture
- Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Note on Citations
- Introduction Method and Field
- Part I Species, Lyric, and Onomatopoeia
- Chapter 1 Species Lyric
- Chapter 2 “How Can You Talk with a Person If They Always Say the Same Thing?”
- Chapter 3 Onomatopoeia, Nonsense, and Naming
- Part II How Did Darwin Invent the Symptom?
- Part III Societies of Blood
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
This chapter defines a genre of lyric whose speaker is a personification of an entire species. Lyrics of this kind appear in poetic field guides in the 1830s, and in poetry for children throughout the century. The chapter closes with readings of lyrics by Swinburne and Hardy in which the conditions under which a species can become a speaking subject are opened to critique
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024