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100 1 Cole, Lucinda.
245 10 Imperfect creatures|h[electronic resource] :|bvermin,
literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 /|cLucinda
Cole.
260 Ann Arbor :|bUniversity of Michigan Press,|c[2016]
300 vi, 240 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm
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.
650 0 English literature|y17th century|xHistory and criticism.
650 0 English literature|y18th century|xHistory and criticism.
650 0 Pests in literature.
650 0 Human-animal relationships in literature.
650 0 Human-animal relationships.
650 0 Animals as carriers of disease.
650 0 Literature and science|zEngland|xHistory|y17th century.
856 40 |uhttp://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=608290|zFull text
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