Worm work [[electronic resource] ] : recasting Romanticism / / Janelle A. Schwartz
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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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| 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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.: | 9910462352203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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