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UNINA9910818639703321 |
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Autore |
Schwartz Janelle A |
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Titolo |
Worm work [[electronic resource] ] : recasting Romanticism / / Janelle A. Schwartz |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4529-4708-2 |
0-8166-8295-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxv, 277 p.) : ill |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Romanticism - Europe |
Nature in literature |
Literature and science - Europe - History - 18th century |
Literature and science - Europe - History - 19th century |
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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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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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Transitional tropes: the nature of life in European romantic thought -- "Unchanging but in form": the aesthetic episteme of Erasmus Darwin -- "Not without some repugnancy, and a fluctuating mind": Trembley's polyp and the practice of eighteenth-century taxonomy -- "Art thou but a worm?": Blake and the question concerning taxonomy -- A diet of worms; or, Frankenstein and the matter of a vile romanticism. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, this book proposes a new framework for understanding such a strangely animate nature. |
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