Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Autore: | Schwartz Janelle A |
Titolo: | Worm work [[electronic resource] ] : recasting Romanticism / / Janelle A. Schwartz |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxv, 277 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 809/.9145 |
Soggetto topico: | Romanticism - Europe |
Nature in literature | |
Literature and science - Europe - History - 18th century | |
Literature and science - Europe - History - 19th century | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Worm work |
ISBN: | 1-4529-4708-2 |
0-8166-8295-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785965703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |