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Imperfect Creatures : Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 /

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"Lucinda Cole's Imperfect Creatures offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of "vermin" as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between theology and an emergent empir...

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1. autor: Cole, Lucinda
Format: Elektroniczne E-book
Język:angielski
Wydane: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Seria:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Hasła przedmiotowe:
Science in literature.
Pests in literature.
Literature and science.
Animals as carriers of disease.
English literature.
Human-animal relationships.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
NATURE > Animals > General.
Litterature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Animaux (Vecteurs de maladies)
Relations homme-animal.
Relations homme-animal dans la litterature.
Animaux et plantes nuisibles dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and science > England > History > 17th century.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Spis treści:
  • Introduction: Reading beneath the Grain
  • Rats, Witches, Miasma, and Early Modern Theories of Contagion
  • Swarming Things: Dearth and the Plagues of Egypt in Wither and Cowley
  • "Observe the Frog": Imperfect Creatures, Neuroanatomy, and the Problem of the Human
  • Libertine Biopolitics: Dogs, Bitches, and Parasites in Shadwell, Rochester, and Gay
  • What Happened to the Rats? Hoarding, Hunger, and Storage on Crusoe's Island
  • Afterword: We Have Never Been Perfect.

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