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Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism ~ Schwartz, Janelle A. PB
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- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- Genre
- Environment, Nature & Earth
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Book Title
- Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism
- Topic
- Literary Criticism
- ISBN
- 9780816673216
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816673217
ISBN-13
9780816673216
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117263908
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Publication Name
Worm Work : Recasting Romanticism
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Subject
European / General, Subjects & Themes / Nature, General, Subjects & Themes / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Nature, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-008137
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" Worm Work is sophisticated and full of unexpected analytic insights. Animal studies have in general been preoccupied by big animals and the nineteenth century, so it is important and refreshing to go a little further back in time and down the great chain of being to see how the lower animals have shaped, and been shaped by, cultural standards." -Charlotte Sleigh, author of Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology, " Worm Work is sophisticated and full of unexpected analytic insights. Animal studies have in general been preoccupied by big animals and the nineteenth century, so it is important and refreshing to go a little further back in time and down the great chain of being to see how the lower animals have shaped, and been shaped by, cultural standards." --Charlotte Sleigh, author of Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology, " Worm Work is sophisticated and full of unexpected analytic insights. Animal studies have in general been preoccupied by big animals and the nineteenth century, so it is important and refreshing to go a little further back in time and down the great chain of being to see how the lower animals have shaped, and been shaped by, cultural standards." --Charlotte Sleigh, author of Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
809/.9145
Table Of Content
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: VermiCulture 1. Transitional Tropes: The Nature of Life in European Romantic Thought 2. "Unchanging but in Form": The Aesthetic Episteme of Erasmus Darwin 3. "Not without some Repugnancy, and a Fluctuating Mind": Trembley's Polyp and the Practice of Eighteenth-Century Taxonomy 4. "Art Thou but a Worm?": Blake and the Question Concerning Taxonomy 5. A Diet of Worms; or, Frankenstein and the Matter of a Vile Romanticism Conclusion: "Wherefore All This Wormy Circumstance?" Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Worms. Natural history is riddled with them. Literature is crawling with them. 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, Janelle A. Schwartz proposes a new framework for understanding such a strangely animate nature. Worms, she declares, are the very matter with which the Romantics rethought the relationship between a material world in constant flux and the human mind working to understand it. Worm Work studies the lesser-known natural historical records of Abraham Trembley and his contemporaries and the familiar works of Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin, William Blake, Mary Shelley, and John Keats, to expose the worm as an organism that is not only reviled as a taxonomic terror but revered as a sign of great order in nature as well as narrative. This book traces a pattern of cultural production, a vermiculture that is as transformative of matter as it is of mind. It distinguishes decay or division as positive processes in Romantic era writings, compounded by generation or renewal and used to represent the biocentric, complex structuring of organicism. Offering the worm as an archetypal figure through which to recast the evolution of a literary order alongside questions of taxonomy from 1740 to 1820 and on, Schwartz unearths Romanticism as a rich humus of natural historical investigation and literary creation., Worms. Natural history is riddled with them. Literature is crawling with them. From antiquity to today, the ubiquitous worm provokes an immediate discomfort and unconscious distancing: it remains us against them in anthropocentric anxiety. Rehabilitating the lowly worm into a powerful aesthetic trope, Janelle A. Schwartz proposes a new framework for understanding such a strangely animate nature. Worms,she declares, are the very matter with which the Romantics rethought the relationship between a material world in constant flux and thehuman mind working to understand it.
LC Classification Number
PN603.S27 2012
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