| Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era debates and their literary consequences. Through a series of careful readings, Robert Mitchell shows how a range of elements of modern literature, from character-systems to free indirect discourse, are closely intertwined with Romantic-era liberalism and biopolitics. Robert Mitchell is Chair of English at Duke University, where he also directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory. His most recent book, Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature , won the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize and the BSLS Book Prize. |