Reading with John Clare : biopoetics, sovereignty, romanticism /
Guyer, Sara Emilie,author.
"Reading with John Clare argues that poetry and its repression lies at the heart of biopolitical thinking. By rereading the emergence of biopolitics and focusing on the exemplary case of John Clare, it renews our understanding of the relation between aesthetics and politics from romanticism to the present"--
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-123) and index.
"Reading with John Clare argues that poetry and its repression lies at the heart of biopolitical thinking. By rereading the emergence of biopolitics and focusing on the exemplary case of John Clare, it renews our understanding of the relation between aesthetics and politics from romanticism to the present"--
Introduction: The Life of Reading -- 1. The Viability of Poetry -- 2. The Origins and Ends of Genius -- 3. Can the Poet Speak? -- 4. Inventions of Self Identity -- 5. The Poetics of Homelessness -- Coda: The Reading of Life.
Clare, John, 1793-1864.
Clare, John, 1793-1864.
Aesthetics
Biopolitics.
Aesthetics
Biopolitics.