Life : organic form and Romanticism / Denise Gigante.
"What makes something alive? Or, more to the point, what is life? The question is as old as the ages and has not been (and may never be) resolved. Life springs from life, and liveliness motivates matter to act the way it does. Yet vitality in its very unpredictability often appears as a threat....
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Alternate Title: | Organic form and Romanticism |
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Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009] ©2009 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Smart's powers : Jubilate agno
- Blake's living form : Jerusalem
- Shelley's vitalist "Witch"
- Keats's principle of monstrosity : Lamia.