Title: Science, politics, and friendship in the works of Thomas Lowell Beddoes /
Authors: Berns, Ute.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press ; Rowman & Littlefield,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, Criticism and interpretation.
Contents: Discursive horizons in Beddoes's letters -- Visual figuration and performativity in Death's jest-book -- The republican promise of revolutionary Bonapartism -- Roman ideals in "unroman times" -- Caesarist visions of history -- Friendship and fraternity in crisis -- Friendship( -- )haunting sovereignty -- Resignifying the friend -- The discourse of "life" in "squats on a toad-stool" -- Life science, natural history, and politics in Death's jest-book -- Performing genres and the uses of illegitimacy.