Science, politics, and friendship in the works of Thomas Lowell Beddoes / Ute Berns.

"This study revaluates the work of the scientist and radical, poet and dramatist and English exile in Germany Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)"--Provided by publisher.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Berns, Ute
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : Lanham, Md. : University of Delaware Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012.
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Table of 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.