Transitional tropes: the nature of life in European romantic thought -- "Unchanging but in form": the aesthetic episteme of Erasmus Darwin -- "Not without some repugnancy, and a fluctuating mind": Trembley's polyp and the practice of eighteenth-century taxonomy -- "Art thou but a worm?": Blake and the question concerning taxonomy -- A diet of worms; or, Frankenstein and the matter of a vile romanticism.
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