The indistinct human in Renaissance literature

The indistinct human in Renaissance literature

67,91 €(IVA inc.)

Argues for the necessity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. The essays in this collectionargue for recognition of the persistently indistinct nature of humans, who cannot be finally divided ontologically or epistemologically from other forms of matter. Jean E. Feerick is an assistant professor of English at Brown University.Vin Nardizzi is an assistant professor of English at the University of British Columbia. INDICE: On Vegetating Virgins: Greensickness and the Plant Realm in Early Modern Literature;H.M.Nunn - Shakespeare's Bastard Graffs: Early Modern FamilyPlanning and the Problem with Plants;M.Wilson - The Roots of Oedipus inKing Lear;V.Nardizzi - 'A bett'ring of nature': Grafting and Embryonic Development inThe 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 EightAnimals 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

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-34047-3
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 304
  • Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés