Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity by Richard A. Barney & Warren Montag

Author:Richard A. Barney & Warren Montag [Barney, Richard A. & Montag, Warren]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Literary Criticism, Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy, Movements, Post-Structuralism, Science, History
ISBN: 9780823281725
Google: N7iGtAEACAAJ
Publisher: Fordham UP
Published: 2019-09-15T20:27:31+00:00

NOTES

1. Thomas Seccombe, “John Thelwall,” Dictionary of National Biography 56 (1885–1900), 111.

2. For discussions of Thelwall’s political career during the 1790s, see, e.g., John Barrell, Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793–1796 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 366–401; Geoffrey Bindman, “John Thelwall: A Free Man Confronts the Law,” Romanticism 16, no. 2 (2010): 115–19; Nancy E. Johnson, “Fashioning the Legal Subject: Narratives from the London Treason Trials of 1794,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 21, no. 3 (2009): 413–43; Michael Scrivener, “John Thelwall and the Revolution of 1649,” in Radicalism in British Literary Culture, 1650–1830: From Revolution to Revolution, ed. Timothy Morton and Nigel Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 119–32; and Scrivener, Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001).

On Thelwall’s relation to literary Romanticism, see Michael Murphy, “John Thelwall, Coleridge, and The Ancient Mariner,” Romanticism 8, no. 1 (2002): 62–74; Nicholas Roe, “Coleridge and John Thelwall: The Road to Nether Stowey,” in The Coleridge Connection: Essays for Thomas McFarland, ed. Richard Gravil and Molly Lefebure (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990), 60–80; Judith Thompson, John Thelwall in the Wordsworth Circle: The Silenced Partner (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); and Thompson, “ ‘Thy Power to Declare’: Thelwall, Coleridge, and the Politics of Collaboration,” Romanticism 16, no. 2 (2010): 164–83.

Thelwall’s venture in speech therapy has been discussed by Judith Felson Duchan, “John Thelwall’s Elocutionary Practices,” Romanticism 16, no. 2 (2010): 191–96; and Andrew McCann, “Romantic Self-Fashioning: John Thelwall and the Science of Elocution,” Studies in Romanticism 40, no. 2 (2001): 215–32.

3. Michael Scrivener, “John Thelwall and the Press,” in Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, ed. Stephen C. Behrendt (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997), 123; Nicholas Roe, John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), 180.

4. See James Robert Allard, “John Thelwall and the Politics of Medicine,” European Romantic Review 15, no. 1 (2004): 73–87; and Catherine Packham, Eighteenth-Century Vitalism: Bodies, Culture, Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 142.

5. The widespread tropes of disease and infection for describing the threat of revolutionary France can be found, for instance, in texts such as John Somers Cocks, Patriotism and the Love of Liberty Defended (1791), 7:25–26; William Atkinson, A Concise Sketch of the Intended Revolution, in England (1794), 8:194, 196; and the anonymous Loyalty Necessary to Self Preservation; or, An Antidote against the Baneful Influence of Republican Doctrines (1798), 8:280; all in Political Writing of the 1790s, ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1995). For an account of Burke’s drawing on biomedical models in order to make his political arguments in Reflections on the Revolution in France and the later Letters on a Regicide Peace, see my “Burke, Biomedicine, and Biobelligerence,” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54, no. 2 (2013): 231–43.

6. Giorgio Agamben, The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government, trans. Lorenzo Chiesa (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), 277; hereafter cited in text.

7. John Thelwall, The Peripatetic; or, Sketches of the Heart, of Nature and Society, ed.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.