Preface | vii
Introduction | 1
Part I: Romanticism, Biopolitics, and Literary Concepts
1. Biopolitics, Populations, and the Growth of Genius | 23
2. Imagining Population in the Romantic Era: Frankenstein, Books, and Readers | 50
3. Freed Indirect Discourse: Biopolitics, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel | 77
Part II: Romanticism and the Operations of Biopolitics
4. Building Beaches: Global Flows, Romantic-Era Terraforming, and the Anthropocene | 113
5. Liberalism and the Concept of the Collective Experiment | 148
6. Life, Self-Regulation, and the Liberal Imagination | 186
Acknowledgments | 231
Notes | 233
Works Cited | 291
Index | 313