 | The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance Subjects: Instinct -- History -- 19th century; Sex -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century; Without wholly or consistently unseating the idea that instinct marked the proper province of women, workers and/or savages, this shift in instinct's appeal to civilized European men at the turn of the twentieth century nonetheless modified the governmentality of empire, labor, and gender. Frederickson Kathleen : Kathleen Frederickson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. |
