Description |
1 online resource (vi, 298 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Early modern cultural studies |
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Early modern cultural studies.
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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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Human body in literature.
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Renaissance -- England
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 16th Century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Early modern
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Human body in literature
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Renaissance
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England
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Feerick, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth)
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Nardizzi, Vincent Joseph, 1978-
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ISBN |
9781137015693 |
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1137015691 |
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