Imperfect Creatures : Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 /
"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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Язык: | английский |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2016]
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Оглавление:
- 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.