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Experimental life : vitalism in Romantic science and literature

Title
  1. Experimental life : vitalism in Romantic science and literature / Robert Mitchell.
Published by
  1. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
  2. ©2013
Author
  1. Mitchell, Robert, 1969-

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Description
  1. viii, 309 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Vitalism in literature
  2. Romanticism > England
  3. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  4. Literature and science > England > History > 19th century
  5. Life in literature
Contents
  1. Romanticism, art, and experiments -- Suspended animation, slow time, and the poetics of trance -- A cold northern breeze: life, orientation, and abandoned experiments -- Chylopoeisis: nausea, digestion, and the collapsurgence of system -- The media of life -- Cryptogamia -- Conclusion: biopolitics and experimental vitalism.
Call number
  1. JFE 14-1160
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Mitchell, Robert, 1969- author.
Title
  1. Experimental life : vitalism in Romantic science and literature / Robert Mitchell.
Publisher
  1. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Copyright date
  1. ©2013
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2013004819
ISBN
  1. 9781421410883 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  2. 9781421410890 (electronic)
  3. 1421410885 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  4. 1421410893 (electronic)
Research call number
  1. JFE 14-1160
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