Imperfect creatures: vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740
"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 empir...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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 supplies, property laws, national identity, and the theological imperatives that underwrote humankind's claim to dominion over the animal kingdom. In this context, Cole's study indicates, so-called "vermin" occupied liminal spaces between subject and object, nature and animal, animal and the devil, the devil and disease--even reason and madness. This verminous discourse formed a foundational category used to carve out humankind's relationship to an unpredictable, a-rational natural world, but it evolved into a form for thinking about not merely animals but anything that threatened the health of the body politic--humans, animals, and even thoughts."-- |
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| contents | 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 |
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| spelling | Cole, Lucinda Verfasser aut Imperfect creatures vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 Lucinda Cole Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press [2016] 1 Online-Ressource (240 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier 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 Open Access EbpS "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 supplies, property laws, national identity, and the theological imperatives that underwrote humankind's claim to dominion over the animal kingdom. In this context, Cole's study indicates, so-called "vermin" occupied liminal spaces between subject and object, nature and animal, animal and the devil, the devil and disease--even reason and madness. This verminous discourse formed a foundational category used to carve out humankind's relationship to an unpredictable, a-rational natural world, but it evolved into a form for thinking about not merely animals but anything that threatened the health of the body politic--humans, animals, and even thoughts."-- English Geschichte 1600-1740 gnd rswk-swf Animaux (Vecteurs de maladies) Animaux et plantes nuisibles dans la littérature Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique Littérature et sciences Histoire Relations homme-animal dans la littérature Relations homme-animal Animals as carriers of disease English literature Human-animal relationships in literature Human-animal relationships LITERARY CRITICISM Renaissance Literature and science NATURE Animals Pests in literature Science in literature English literature 17th century History and criticism English literature 18th century History and criticism Literature and science England History 17th century Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Ungeziefer (DE-588)4186879-1 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf 1600-1799 England Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Ungeziefer (DE-588)4186879-1 s Geschichte 1600-1740 z DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Imperfect creatures Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016] 9780472072958 https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1193225 Verlag kostenfrei Volltext text file |
| spellingShingle | Cole, Lucinda Imperfect creatures vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 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 Animaux (Vecteurs de maladies) Animaux et plantes nuisibles dans la littérature Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique Littérature et sciences Histoire Relations homme-animal dans la littérature Relations homme-animal Animals as carriers of disease English literature Human-animal relationships in literature Human-animal relationships LITERARY CRITICISM Renaissance Literature and science NATURE Animals Pests in literature Science in literature English literature 17th century History and criticism English literature 18th century History and criticism Literature and science England History 17th century Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Ungeziefer (DE-588)4186879-1 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd |
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| title_full | Imperfect creatures vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 Lucinda Cole |
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| topic | Animaux (Vecteurs de maladies) Animaux et plantes nuisibles dans la littérature Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique Littérature et sciences Histoire Relations homme-animal dans la littérature Relations homme-animal Animals as carriers of disease English literature Human-animal relationships in literature Human-animal relationships LITERARY CRITICISM Renaissance Literature and science NATURE Animals Pests in literature Science in literature English literature 17th century History and criticism English literature 18th century History and criticism Literature and science England History 17th century Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Ungeziefer (DE-588)4186879-1 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd |
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