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Worm Work : Recasting Romanticism
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...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2012.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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| 520 | |a 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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