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.

• Preface viiIntroduction 1Part I: Romanticism, Biopolitics, and Literary Concepts1. Biopolitics, Populations, and the Growth of Genius 232. Imagining Population in the Romantic Era: Frankenstein, Books, and Readers 503. Freed Indirect Discourse: Biopolitics, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel 77Part II: Romanticism and the Operations of Biopolitics4. Building Beaches: Global Flows, Romantic-Era Terraforming, and the Anthropocene 1135. Liberalism and the Concept of the Collective Experiment 1486. Life, Self-Regulation, and the Liberal Imagination 186Acknowledgments 231Notes 233Works Cited 291Index 313

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.

• Preface viiIntroduction 1Part I: Romanticism, Biopolitics, and Literary Concepts1. Biopolitics, Populations, and the Growth of Genius 232. Imagining Population in the Romantic Era: Frankenstein, Books, and Readers 503. Freed Indirect Discourse: Biopolitics, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel 77Part II: Romanticism and the Operations of Biopolitics4. Building Beaches: Global Flows, Romantic-Era Terraforming, and the Anthropocene 1135. Liberalism and the Concept of the Collective Experiment 1486. Life, Self-Regulation, and the Liberal Imagination 186Acknowledgments 231Notes 233Works Cited 291Index 313

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.

• Preface viiIntroduction 1Part I: Romanticism, Biopolitics, and Literary Concepts1. Biopolitics, Populations, and the Growth of Genius 232. Imagining Population in the Romantic Era: Frankenstein, Books, and Readers 503. Freed Indirect Discourse: Biopolitics, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel 77Part II: Romanticism and the Operations of Biopolitics4. Building Beaches: Global Flows, Romantic-Era Terraforming, and the Anthropocene 1135. Liberalism and the Concept of the Collective Experiment 1486. Life, Self-Regulation, and the Liberal Imagination 186Acknowledgments 231Notes 233Works Cited 291Index 313