Introduction : the biopolitical imagination -- Populating solitude : Malthus, the masses, and the romantic subject -- Political animals : the Victorian city, demography, and the politics of creaturely life -- Dickens's supernumeraries -- The sensation novel and the redundant woman questions -- "Because we are too menny."

1. English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
2. Population in literature
3. Fertility
4. Human
5. in literature
6. Malthusianism