Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out? 1
5. 1. The Mind Is Its Own Place: What Percy Shelley’s Mountain Did Not Say 28
6. 2. No More Cakes and Ale, Only Oil Slicks: Mary Shelley’s Post-Apocalyptic State of Nature 66
7. 3. Byron’s Speculative Turn: The Biopolitics of Paradise 100
8. 4. Birds Do It, Bees Do It: John Clare, Biopolitics, and the Nonhuman Origins of Love 123
9. 5. The Best of All Possible End of the Worlds: Jane Austen’s Frankenstein, or Love in the Ruins 151
10. Coda: After Extinctualism: Hope for Life 188
11. Notes 191
12. Bibliography 229
13. Index 247