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Imperfect creatures : vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 / Lucinda Cole

出版者	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
出版年	[2016]
大きさ	vi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
著者標目	*Cole, Lucinda author
件　名	LCSH:English literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism  全ての件名で検索 LCSH:English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism  全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Pests in literature LCSH:Human-animal relationships in literature LCSH:Human-animal relationships LCSH:Animals as carriers of disease LCSH:Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century  全ての件名で検索 FREE:NATURE / Animals / General. bisacsh FREE:LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. bisacsh
内容注記	Introduction: Reading beneath the Grain Rats, Witches, Miasma, and Early Modern Theories of Contagion Swarming Things: Dearth and the Plagues of Egypt in Wither and Cowley "Observe the Frog": Imperfect Creatures, Neuroanatomy, and the Problem of the Human Libertine Biopolitics: Dogs, Bitches, and Parasites in Shadwell, Rochester, and Gay What Happened to the Rats? Hoarding, Hunger, and Storage on Crusoe's Island Afterword: We Have Never Been Perfect
一般注記	Summary: "Lucinda Cole's Imperfect Creatures offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of "vermin" as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between theology and an emergent empiricism, Cole's argument engages a wide historical swath of canonical early modern literary texts--William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, Abraham Cowley's The Plagues of Egypt, Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso, Rochester's "A Ramble in St. James's Park," and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year--alongside other nonliterary primary sources and under-examined archival materials from the period, including treatises on animal trials, grain shortages, rabies, and comparative neuroanatomy. As Cole illustrates, human health and demographic problems--notably those of feeding populations periodically stricken by hunger, disease, and famine--were tied to larger questions about food s Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-232) and index

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