{"product_id":"experimental-life-robert-mitchell-9781421410883","title":"Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eExperimental Life\u003c\/i\u003e establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the notion of experimentation from the natural sciences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, BSLS Book Prize of the British Society for Literature and Science\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifically, with regard to Romanticism no study has investigated what it meant for artists to experiment and how those experiments related to their interest in the concept of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExperimental Life\u003c\/i\u003e draws on approaches and ideas from contemporary science studies, proposing the concept of experimental vitalism to show both how Romantic authors appropriated the concept of experimentation from the sciences and the impact of their appropriation on post-Romantic concepts of literature and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Mitchell navigates complex conceptual arenas such as network theory, gift exchange, paranoia, and biomedia and introduces new concepts, such as cryptogamia, chylopoietic discourse, trance-plantation, and the poetics of suspension. As a result, \u003ci\u003eExperimental Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a wide-ranging summation and extension of the current state of literary studies, the history of science, cultural critique, and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421410885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421410883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2014","brand":"Robert Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088210866431,"sku":"9781421410883","price":60.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6cd5380d-830a-48a3-9c9c-decc2c5084e3.jpg?v=1769103671","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/experimental-life-robert-mitchell-9781421410883","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}