Mitchell, Robert, 1969-

Experimental life : vitalism in Romantic science and literature / Robert Mitchell. - Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9781421410890


English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and science--History--England--19th century.
Romanticism--England.
Vitalism in literature.
Life in literature.


Electronic Books.

PR585 / .E974 2013