Mitchell, Robert

Experimental life : Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature / Robert Mitchell. - Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, 2013. - viii, 309 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliogr. references (p. [271]-293) 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.

978-1-4214-1088-3


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