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Worm work : recasting Romanticism / Janelle A. Schwartz.

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Main Author:	Schwartz, Janelle A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
Subjects:	Romanticism > Europe. Nature in literature. Literature and science > Europe > History > 18th century. Literature and science > Europe > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

Transitional tropes: the nature of life in European romantic thought
"Unchanging but in form": the aesthetic episteme of Erasmus Darwin
"Not without some repugnancy, and a fluctuating mind": Trembley's polyp and the practice of eighteenth-century taxonomy
"Art thou but a worm?": Blake and the question concerning taxonomy
A diet of worms; or, Frankenstein and the matter of a vile romanticism.