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100 1 Cole, Lucinda,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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245 10 Imperfect creatures :|bvermin, literature, and the
sciences of life, 1600-1740 /|cLucinda Cole.
264 1 Ann Arbor :|bUniversity of Michigan Press,|c2016.
264 4 |c©2016
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505 0 Introduction: Reading beneath the Grain -- Rats, Witches,
Miasma, and Early Modern Theories of Contagion -- Swarming
Things: Dearth and the Plagues of Egypt in Wither and
Cowley -- "Observe the Frog": Imperfect Creatures,
Neuroanatomy, and the Problem of the Human -- Libertine
Biopolitics: Dogs, Bitches, and Parasites in Shadwell,
Rochester, and Gay -- What Happened to the Rats? Hoarding,
Hunger, and Storage on Crusoe's Island -- Afterword: We
Have Never Been Perfect.
520 3 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 argument engages a wide historical swath of
canonical early modern literary texts--William
Shakespeare's Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of
Malta, Abraham Cowley's The Plagues of Egypt, Thomas
Shadwell's The Virtuoso, the Earl of Rochester's "A Ramble
in St. James's Park," and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
and Journal of the Plague Year--alongside other
nonliterary primary sources and under-examined archival
materials from the period, including treatises on animal
trials, grain shortages, rabies, and comparative
neuroanatomy. As Cole illustrates, human health and
demographic problems--notably those of feeding populations
periodically stricken by hunger, disease, and famine--were
tied to larger questions about food supplies, property
laws, national identity, and the theological imperatives
that underwrote humankind's claim to dominion over the
animal kingdom. In this context, Cole's study indicates,
so-called "vermin" occupied liminal spaces between subject
and object, nature and animal, animal and the devil, the
devil and disease--even reason and madness. This verminous
discourse formed a foundational category used to carve out
humankind's relationship to an unpredictable, irrational
natural world, but it evolved into a form for thinking
about not merely animals but anything that threatened the
health of the body politic--humans, animals, and even
thoughts.
588 0 Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed
March 16, 2016).
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aCole, Lucinda.|tImperfect creatures :
vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740.
|dAnn Arbor, [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press,
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