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Title The indistinct human in Renaissance literature / edited by Jean E. Feerick and Vin Nardizzi
Edition 1st ed
Published New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 298 pages) : illustrations
Series Early modern cultural studies
Early modern cultural studies.
Contents On Vegetating Virgins: Greensickness and the Plant Realm in Early Modern Literature; H.M. Nunn -- Shakespeare's Bastard Graffs: Early Modern Family Planning and the Problem with Plants; M. Wilson -- The Roots of Oedipus in King Lear; V. Nardizzi -- 'A bett'ring of nature': Grafting and Embryonic Development in The Duchess of Malfi; E. Ellerbeck -- Vegetable Love: Botany and Sexuality in Early Modern England; M. Swann -- A Heart of Stone: The Godless in Early Modern England; T.J. Werth -- 'O'ersized with coagulate gore': Bodies, Blots, and Renaissance Ecologies of Inscription; J. Calhoun -- Sullied Flesh: Or, the Politics of 'Hideous Orchard[s]' in Kyd and Shakespeare; J. Feerick -- A Theater of Sensation? Shakespeare's Stony Women and the Boundaries of the Human; J. Waldron -- The Eight Animals in Shakespeare; or, Before the Human; L. Shannon -- Of Sirens and Cetacea: Shakespeare and Marine Mammals; D. Brayton -- Half-fish, Half-flesh: Dolphins, Humans, and the Early Modern Ocean; S. Mentz -- Eating Well: Cannibalism and Carnivorism in the Tales of La Fontaine, Perrault, and d'Aulnoy; M. Senior -- Culinary Transactions: Humans, Animals, and Sensations in Early Modern Cookbooks; J. Zysk
Summary "This volume argues for the necessaity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. Building on the increased attention paid in recent criticism to both plant and animal life in the Renaissance, as well as the instability of categories such as "human" and "animal," the essays in this collection argue for recognition of the persistently indistinct nature of humans, who cannot be finally divided ontologically or epistemologically from other forms of matter"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Human body in literature.
Renaissance -- England
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 16th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Early modern
Human body in literature
Renaissance
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Feerick, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth)
Nardizzi, Vincent Joseph, 1978-
ISBN 9781137015693
1137015691