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

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"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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Main Author: Cole, Lucinda (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Subjects:
English literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Pests in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Human-animal relationships.
Animals as carriers of disease.
Literature and science > England > History > 17th century.
NATURE / Animals / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
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