Experimental Life : Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature.
Mitchell, Robert.
Experimental Life : Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (320 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Three Eras of Experimental Vitalism -- 1 Romanticism, Art, and Experiments -- 2 Suspended Animation and the Poetics of Trance -- 3 Life, Orientation, and Abandoned Experiments -- 4 Nausea, Digestion, and the Collapsurgence of System -- 5 The Media of Life -- 6 Cryptogamia -- Conclusion: Biopolitics and Experimental Vitalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
As a result, Experimental Life is a wide-ranging summation and extension of the current state of literary studies, the history of science, cultural critique, and theory.
9781421410890
English literature-19th century-History and criticism.
Life in literature.
Literature and science-England-History-19th century.
Romanticism-England.
Vitalism in literature.
Electronic books.
PR585.S33 M58 2013
820.9/36
Experimental Life : Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (320 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Three Eras of Experimental Vitalism -- 1 Romanticism, Art, and Experiments -- 2 Suspended Animation and the Poetics of Trance -- 3 Life, Orientation, and Abandoned Experiments -- 4 Nausea, Digestion, and the Collapsurgence of System -- 5 The Media of Life -- 6 Cryptogamia -- Conclusion: Biopolitics and Experimental Vitalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
As a result, Experimental Life is a wide-ranging summation and extension of the current state of literary studies, the history of science, cultural critique, and theory.
9781421410890
English literature-19th century-History and criticism.
Life in literature.
Literature and science-England-History-19th century.
Romanticism-England.
Vitalism in literature.
Electronic books.
PR585.S33 M58 2013
820.9/36