Experimental life : vitalism in Romantic science and literature / / Robert Mitchell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822814303321
• Autore: Mitchell Robert <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore : , : The Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-4214-1089-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/36
• Soggetti: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Life in literature; Literature and science - England - History - 19th century; Romanticism - England; Vitalism in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Romanticism, art, and experiments -- Suspended animation, slow time, and the poetics of trance -- A cold northern breeze: life, orientation, and abandoned experiments -- Chylopoeisis: nausea, digestion, and the collapsurgence of system -- The media of life -- Cryptogamia -- Conclusion: biopolitics and experimental vitalism.