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100 1 |a Cole, Lucinda. 
245 1 0 |a Imperfect Creatures :   |b Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 /   |c Lucinda Cole. 
264 1 |a Ann Arbor :  |b University of Michigan Press,  |c [2016] 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2018 
264 4 |c ©[2016] 
300 |a 1 online resource (240 pages). 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
505 0 |a Introduction: Reading beneath the Grain -- Rats, Witches, Miasma, and Early Modern Theories of Contagion -- Swarming Things: Dearth and the Plagues of Egypt in Wither and Cowley -- "Observe the Frog": Imperfect Creatures, Neuroanatomy, and the Problem of the Human -- Libertine Biopolitics: Dogs, Bitches, and Parasites in Shadwell, Rochester, and Gay -- What Happened to the Rats? Hoarding, Hunger, and Storage on Crusoe's Island -- Afterword: We Have Never Been Perfect. 
506 0 |a Open Access  |f Unrestricted online access  |2 star 
520 |a "Lucinda Cole's Imperfect Creatures offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of "vermin" as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between theology and an emergent empiricism, Cole's argument engages a wide historical swath of canonical early modern literary texts--William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, Abraham Cowley's The Plagues of Egypt, Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso, Rochester's "A Ramble in St. James's Park," and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year--alongside other nonliterary primary sources and under-examined archival materials from the period, including treatises on animal trials, grain shortages, rabies, and comparative neuroanatomy. As Cole illustrates, human health and demographic problems--notably those of feeding populations periodically stricken by hunger, disease, and famine--were tied to larger questions about food supplies, property laws, national identity, and the theological imperatives that underwrote humankind's claim to dominion over the animal kingdom. In this context, Cole's study indicates, so-called "vermin" occupied liminal spaces between subject and object, nature and animal, animal and the devil, the devil and disease--even reason and madness. This verminous discourse formed a foundational category used to carve out humankind's relationship to an unpredictable, a-rational natural world, but it evolved into a form for thinking about not merely animals but anything that threatened the health of the body politic--humans, animals, and even thoughts."--  |c Provided by publisher 
546 |a English. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 7 |a Science in literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01108731 
650 7 |a Pests in literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01938665 
650 7 |a Literature and science.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01000093 
650 7 |a Animals as carriers of disease.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00809570 
650 7 |a English literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 
650 7 |a Human-animal relationships.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00963482 
650 7 |a Human-animal relationships in literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00963492 
650 7 |a LITERARY CRITICISM  |x Renaissance.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a NATURE  |x Animals  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 6 |a Litterature et sciences  |z Angleterre  |x Histoire  |y 17e siecle. 
650 6 |a Animaux (Vecteurs de maladies) 
650 6 |a Relations homme-animal. 
650 6 |a Relations homme-animal dans la litterature. 
650 6 |a Animaux et plantes nuisibles dans la litterature. 
650 6 |a Litterature anglaise  |y 18e siecle  |x Histoire et critique. 
650 6 |a Litterature anglaise  |y 17e siecle  |x Histoire et critique. 
650 0 |a Literature and science  |z England  |x History  |y 17th century. 
650 0 |a Animals as carriers of disease. 
650 0 |a Human-animal relationships. 
650 0 |a Human-animal relationships in literature. 
650 0 |a Pests in literature. 
650 0 |a English literature  |y 18th century  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a English literature  |y 17th century  |x History and criticism. 
651 7 |a England.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/52100/