Imperfect creatures : vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cole, Lucinda, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 2016.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Animals in literature.
Insects in literature.
Literature and science > History > 17th century.
Literature and science > History > 18th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817333406719
Table of Contents:
  • 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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