Chapter 5. The Emptiness at The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration, and Population

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. A Race to Fill the Earth: Mobility and Fecundity in Paradise Lost 25
5. Chapter 2. The Afterlives of Political Arithmetic in Defoe and Swift 54
6. Chapter 3. The Veteran’s Tale: War, Mobile Populations, and National Identity 83
7. Chapter 4. Remembering the Population: Goldsmith and Migration 112
8. Chapter 5. The Emptiness at The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration, and Population 138
9. Chapter 6. “Islanded in the World”: Cultural Memory and Human Mobility in The Last Man 157
10. Chapter 7. Prospects of the Future: Malthus, Shelley, and Freedom of Movement 178
11. Afterword 216
12. Notes 223
13. Index 255
14. Acknowledgments 265