Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: “Sweet Science” 1
4. Chapter 1. Blake’s Mundane Egg: Epigenesis and Milieux 35
5. Chapter 2. Equivocal Life: Goethe’s Journals on Morphology 72
6. Chapter 3. Tender Semiosis: Reading Goethe with Lucretius and Paul de Man 100
7. Chapter 4. Growing Old Together: Lucretian Materialism in Shelley’s The Triumph of Life 136
8. Chapter 5. A Natural History of Violence: Allegory and Atomism in Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy 166
9. Coda: Old Materialism, or Romantic Marx 209
10. Acknowledgments 221
11. Notes 225
12. Bibliography 295
13. Index 321