Worm Work

Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism

by Schwartz, Janelle A.

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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 na…

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  • Full title :Worm Work : Recasting Romanticism.

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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 be.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780816682959, 081668295X, 9781452947082, 1452947082
  • oclc:ocn818115228
  • LC Classification:PN603.S27 2012
  • Dewey Decimal:809.9145

Table of Contents

Cover; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N.

OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z.

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Electronic books Europe History Literature and science Literature and science -- History -- 18… Literature and science -- History -- 19… Littérature et sciences -- Histoire -- … Littérature et sciences -- Histoire -- … Nature dans la littérature Nature in literature Romanticism Romanticism -- Europe Romantisme -- Europe

Writers

Schwartz, Janelle A.

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