Book ID: CBB001214295

Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism (2012)

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Schwartz, Janelle A. (Author)


University of Minnesota Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xxv + 277; ill.
Language: English

Rehabilitating the lowly worm into a powerful aesthetic trope, Janelle A. Schwartz proposes a framework for understanding such a strangely animate nature. Offering the worm as an archetypal figure 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.

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Authors & Contributors
Goldstein, Amanda Jo
Bridget E. Kapler
Verderame, Michael
Rivero, Albert J.
Rispoli, Stephanie Adair
Higgins, John Robert
Concepts
Romanticism
Science and literature
Poetry and poetics
Aesthetics
Science and culture
Geology
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Early modern
Enlightenment
Places
Great Britain
Germany
London (England)
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