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A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth centuryIn John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement.Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with "useless" populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain's domestic and colonial territories; after 1760, a concern with the depopulation caused by emigration began to take hold. She explains this change in terms of the interrelated developments of a labor theory of value, a new idea of national identity after the collapse of Britain's American empire, and a move from thinking of reproduction as a national resource to thinking of it as an individual choice. She places Malthus at the end of this history because he so decisively moved thinking about population away from a worldview in which there was always more space to be filled and toward the temporal inevitability of the whole world filling up with people.

English literature --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Population in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- Emigration and immigration --- History --- Population --- History --- Colonies --- History --- Daniel Defoe. --- John Milton. --- Jonathan Swift. --- Mary Shelley. --- Oliver Goldsmith. --- Paradise Lost. --- Sir Walter Scott. --- The Heart of Midlothian. --- The Last Man. --- Thomas Malthus. --- essay on the principle of population. --- overpopulation. --- useless population.

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"A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales, The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time in English. These stories have been carefully selected from more than a thousand originally published in the early twentieth century under the pseudonyms Lin Lan and Lady Lin Lan-previously unknown in the West, but now acclaimed as the Brothers Grimm of China.The birth of the tales began in 1924, when one author, Li Xiaofeng, published a set of literary stories under the Lin Lan pen name, an alias that would eventually be shared by an editorial team. Together, this group gathered fairy tales (tonghua) from rural regions across China. Combining traditional oral Chinese narratives with elements from the West, the selections in this collection represent different themes and genres-from folk legends to comic tales. Characters fall for fairies, experience predestined love, and have love/hate relationships with siblings. Cooking girls transform from garden snails and snakes, and dragon daughters construct houses. An introduction offers historical and social context for understanding the role that the Lin Lan stories played in modern China. Appendixes include information on tale types and biographies of the writers and contributors. A reflection of Chinese culture, history, and values, The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales is a captivating testament to the power of storytelling"-- "Although the influence of the Brothers Grimm on folklore in virtually every country in the West has been widely studied, a similar development in the early part of twentieth-century China is virtually unknown. This book collects and translates more than 40 tales selected from the "Lin Lan" series, published in China from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. The pseudonym "Lin Lan" was created in 1924, when a group of three literary stories about the legendary Xu Wenchang (1521-1593), himself the author of many literary works still popular today, were published in a morning newspaper. The success of this first attempt encouraged the creators to publish more folk tales and fairy tales, which ultimately played a major role in the development of modern folk literature in China. The series, written and developed by a Shanghai publisher under the pen name Lin Lan, was divided into three subgenres-minjian chuanshuo (folk legends/tales), minjian tonghua (folk fairy tales), and minjian qushi (comic folk tales)-published in 43 volumes containing nearly one thousand tales in all. The tales were collected the tales from oral storytellers throughout China in response to a call from the publisher, and combined elements of European fairy-tale literature with traditional Chinese narratives"--

Folklore --- Fairy tales --- Humorous stories, Chinese --- History --- Lin Lan --- A Book Of. --- Advertising. --- American Council of Learned Societies. --- Andrei Codrescu. --- Berthold Auerbach. --- Book. --- Brothers Grimm. --- Cat and Dog. --- Cat. --- Cinnabar. --- City God (China). --- Coffin. --- Concerned. --- Confucianism. --- Cover Her Face. --- Deep sea. --- Delicacy. --- Die Gartenlaube. --- Dragon robe. --- Duan Chengshi. --- East Room. --- Fiction. --- Folk and Fairy Tales. --- Franco-Prussian War. --- Frederick the Great. --- Genre. --- German literature. --- Ghost marriage (Chinese). --- Handkerchief. --- Hermann Hesse. --- Historical fiction. --- Imperial examination. --- Interior design. --- Into the West (miniseries). --- Jack Zipes. --- Jean Paul. --- Jiangsu. --- Jujube. --- Kurt Schwitters. --- Leash. --- Loquat. --- Love at first sight. --- Lu Xun (Three Kingdoms). --- Lu Xun. --- Maria Tatar. --- Marina Warner. --- Marry You. --- Mass murder. --- Meal. --- Millet. --- Modernism. --- Mother Courage. --- Naomi Mitchison. --- Narrative. --- New Culture Movement. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Novella. --- Old Book (ghost). --- Oliver Goldsmith. --- Oral tradition. --- Oscar Wilde. --- Pen name. --- Philip Pullman. --- Philistinism. --- Plough. --- Poetry. --- Porcelain. --- Porridge. --- Prose. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Qingming Festival. --- Rapeseed. --- Rice pudding. --- Rice wine. --- Satire. --- Silver coin. --- Sock. --- Spouse. --- Stepmother. --- Taoism. --- The Telling. --- Tian. --- Torpor. --- Traditional Chinese characters. --- Travels (book). --- Trickster. --- Tung oil. --- Two Ladies. --- Wheelbarrow. --- Wilhelm Raabe. --- Wok. --- Writer. --- Wunsiedel. --- Ye Xian. --- Your Face. --- Zhangqiu. --- Zhejiang. --- Zhou Zuoren.