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