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 empiricism, Cole's argumen...
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University of Michigan Press
2016
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