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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: VermiCulture; 1. Transitional Tropes: The Nature of Life in European Romantic Thought; 2. "Unchanging but in Form": The Aesthetic Episteme of Erasmus Darwin; 3. "Not without Some Repugnancy, and a Fluctuating Mind": Trembley's Polyp and the Practice of Eighteenth-Century Taxonomy; 4. "Art Thou but a Worm?" Blake and the Question Concerning Taxonomy; 5. A Diet of Worms; or, Frankenstein and the Matter of a Vile Romanticism; Conclusion: "Wherefore All This Wormy Circumstance?"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N |
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OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z |
| Summary |
Worms. Natural history is riddled with them. Literature is crawling with them. From antiquity to today, the ubiquitous and multiform worm provokes an immediate discomfort and unconscious distancing: it remains us against them in anthropocentric anxiety. So there is always something muddled, or dirty, or even offensive when talking about worms. Rehabilitating the lowly worm into a powerful aesthetic trope, Janelle A. Schwartz proposes a new framework for understanding such a strangely animate nature. Worms, she declares, are the very matter with which the Romantics rethought the relationship be |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Romanticism -- Europe
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Nature in literature.
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Literature and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Literature and science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature and science
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Nature in literature
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Romanticism
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Europe
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012008137 |
| ISBN |
9780816682959 |
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081668295X |
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9781452947082 |
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1452947082 |
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