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.