[Adoptacomposter] Fwd: FW: [Nonhuman] Book Announcement, Worm Work

[Alexandra R. Toland]

new book tip on romantacizing the worm...
Alex

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Subject: 	FW: [Nonhuman] Book Announcement, Worm Work
Date: 	Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:11:43 +0000
From: 	Wayne Miller <wayne.miller at law.duke.edu>
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To: 	litsci-l at duke.edu <litsci-l at duke.edu>
CC: 	mktgtwo at umn.edu <mktgtwo at umn.edu>



*From:*Dylan Hester [mailto:mktgtwo at umn.edu]
<mailto:[mailto:mktgtwo at umn.edu]>

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*The ascent of worms from creepy creatures to a vital Romantic literary
trope*

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WORM WORK: Recasting Romanticism

By Janelle A. Schwartz

University of Minnesota Press | 304 pages | 2012

ISBN 978-0-8166-7321-6 | paperback | $27.50

ISBN 978-0-8166-7320-9 | cloth | $82.50

 

Rehabilitating the lowly worm into a powerful aesthetic trope, Janelle
A. Schwartz proposes a framework for understanding such a strangely
animate nature. Offering the worm as an archetypal figure to recast the
evolution of a literary order alongside questions of taxonomy from 1740
to 1820 and on, Schwartz unearths Romanticism as a rich humus of natural
historical investigation and literary creation.

 

*PRAISE FOR /WORM WORK/:*

"/Worm Work/ is sophisticated and full of unexpected analytic insights.
Animal studies have in general been preoccupied by big animals and the
nineteenth century, so it is important and refreshing to go a little
further back in time and down the great chain of being to see how the
lower animals have shaped, and been shaped by, cultural
standards." —*Charlotte Sleigh*, author of /Six Legs Better: A Cultural
History of Myrmecology/

 

*ABOUT THE AUTHOR:*

*Janelle A. Schwartz* is visiting assistant professor of comparative
literature at Hamilton College.

 

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's
webpage:

http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/worm-work

 

Please email me if you have any questions.

 

Heather Skinner, Publicist

University of Minnesota Press

111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290

Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520

skinn077 at umn.edu <mailto:skinn077 at umn.edu>

v * 612-627-1932

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