Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics by Laura Otis

Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics

Laura Otis

224 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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Between 1830 and 1930, improvements in microscopes made it possible for scientists to describe the nature and behavior of cells. Although Robert Hooke had seen cells more than 150 years earlier, new cultural stresses on individuality made nineteen...

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