Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 240 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780472121557
Content:
Contents -- Introduction: Reading beneath the Grain -- Chapter 1. Rats, Witches, Miasma, and Early Modern Theories of Contagion -- Chapter 2. Swarming Things: Dearth and the Plagues of Egypt in Wither and Cowley -- Chapter 3. "Observe the Frog": Imperfect Creatures, Neuroanatomy, and the Problem of the Human -- Chapter 4. Libertine Biopolitics: Dogs, Bitches, and Parasites in Shadwell, Rochester, and Gay -- Chapter 5. What Happened to the Rats? Hoarding, Hunger, and Storage on Crusoe's Island -- Afterword: We Have Never Been Perfect -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Der Titel ist Teil des Projekts Knowledge Unlatched, Round2 Pre-Unlatch
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780472072958
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978 0 472 05295 0
Additional Edition:
Print version Cole, Lucinda Imperfect Creatures : Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 : University of Michigan Press,c2016
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
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Literatur
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Ungeziefer
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Würmer
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Geschichte 1600-1740
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