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Autore |
Lehleiter Christine |
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Titolo |
Romanticism, origins, and the history of heredity / / Christine Lehleiter |
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[Cranbury, New Jersey] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-61148-623-8 |
1-61148-566-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Collana |
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New Studies in the Age of Goethe |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Romanticism |
Heredity, Human |
Breeding in literature |
Biology in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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TABLE of CONTENTS; LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS; A NOTE on TRANSLATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION. Between Freedom and Determination; CHAPTER ONE. The Discovery of Heredity; CHAPTER TWO. Incest and Inbreeding; CHAPTER THREE. Cross-breeding and Hybridization; CHAPTER FOUR. From Blood to Trauma; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT the AUTHOR |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<span><span>Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Origins Matter</span><span> delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conceptualization of selfhood. </span></span> |
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