Description: Further DetailsTitle: Peopling the WorldCondition: NewSubtitle: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to MalthusISBN-10: 0812252020EAN: 9780812252026ISBN: 9780812252026Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/24/2020Description: A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth centuryIn John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement.Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with "useless" populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain's domestic and colonial territories; after 1760, a concern with the depopulation caused by emigration began to take hold. She explains this change in terms of the interrelated developments of a labor theory of value, a new idea of national identity after the collapse of Britain's American empire, and a move from thinking of reproduction as a national resource to thinking of it as an individual choice. She places Malthus at the end of this history because he so decisively moved thinking about population away from a worldview in which there was always more space to be filled and toward the temporal inevitability of the whole world filling up with people.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Charlotte SussmanGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Peopling the World
Title: Peopling the World
Subtitle: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus
ISBN-10: 0812252020
EAN: 9780812252026
ISBN: 9780812252026
Release Date: 04/24/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Peopling the World : Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Demography, Emigration & Immigration, Europe / Great Britain / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Author: Charlotte Sussman
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
