The Indistinct Human in Renaissance Literature [electronic resource] /
Feerick, J.editor.
Nardizzi, V.editor.
Argues for the necessity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. 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.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Swervings: On Human Indistinction; Part I The Head-Piece; 1 The Eight Animals in Shakespeare;  or, Before the Human; Part II Modes of Indistinction Crossings; 2 "Half-Fish, Half-Flesh": Dolphins, the Ocean, and Early Modern Humans; 3 Royal Fish: Shakespeare's Princely Whales; Bodily Ingestion; 4 You Are What You Eat: Cooking and Writing Across the Species Barrier in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair; 5 "A Bett'ring of Nature": Grafting and Embryonic Development in The Duchess of Malfi
Technologies of Conjunction6 Bastard Grafts, Crafted Fruits: Shakespeare's Planted Families; 7 The Wooden Matter of Human Bodies: Prosthesis and Stump in A Larum for London; Part III Indistinct Bodies (Un)Sexed Bodies; 8 Vegetable Love: Botany and Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century England; 9 On Vegetating Virgins: Greensickness and the Plant Realm in Early Modern Literature; Stony States; 10 A Heart of Stone: The Ungodly in Early Modern England; 11 Of Stones and Stony Hearts: Desdemona, Hermione, and Post-Reformation Theater; Soiled Bodies
12 Groveling with Earth in Kyd and Shakespeare's Historical Tragedies13 The Politic Worm: Invertebrate Life in the Early Modern English Body; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Argues for the necessity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. 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.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature, Modern.
Ethnology.
History, Modern.
Europe-History.
Literary History.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
Modern History.
European History.