02716nam 2200625Ia 450 991081863970332120230124190522.01-4529-4708-20-8166-8295-X(CKB)2670000000269568(SSID)ssj0000757341(PQKBManifestationID)11390559(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757341(PQKBWorkID)10758485(PQKB)10602174(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177359(MiAaPQ)EBC1047451(OCoLC)815383359(MdBmJHUP)muse30036(Au-PeEL)EBL1047451(CaPaEBR)ebr10613539(CaONFJC)MIL525570(EXLCZ)99267000000026956820120308d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrWorm work[electronic resource] recasting Romanticism /Janelle A. SchwartzMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20121 online resource (xxv, 277 p.) illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8166-7320-9 0-8166-7321-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.RomanticismEuropeNature in literatureLiterature and scienceEuropeHistory18th centuryLiterature and scienceEuropeHistory19th centuryRomanticismNature in literature.Literature and scienceHistoryLiterature and scienceHistory809/.9145Schwartz Janelle A1657196MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818639703321Worm work4010495UNINA