Worm Work : Recasting Romanticism

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schwartz, Janelle A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Romanticism.
Nature in literature.
Literature and science.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Litterature et sciences > Europe > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature et sciences > Europe > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Nature dans la litterature.
Romantisme > Europe.
Literature and science > Europe > History > 19th century.
Literature and science > Europe > History > 18th century.
Romanticism > Europe.
Europe.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z.

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