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 empiricism,...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press
2016.
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b33709348*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
