Dynamic Matter : : Transforming Renaissance Objects / / ed. by Jennifer Linhart Wood.
Dynamic Matter investigates the life histories of Renaissance objects. Eschewing the critical tendency to study how objects relate to human needs and desires, this work foregrounds the objects themselves, demonstrating their potential to transform their environments as they travel across time and sp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Transformative Materiality and Renaissance Dynamics
- Part I Objects Within / Without the Body
- Chapter 1 “Farre Fetched and Deare Bought” The Global Cosmetic Exchange Between Elizabeth I, Melike Safiye Sultan, and the Kira Esperanza Malchi
- Chapter 2 Comb Poems
- Chapter 3 Variable Vestments and Clothing Conversions: Piecing Out the Past in Tudor Exeter
- Part II Networking Objects
- Chapter 4 Bird- People, Utopias, Arte Plumaria: The Influence of Native American Feathers on Renaissance Literature and Culture
- Chapter 5 Needlework Patterns on the Move: Traveling Toward (Re)incarnation
- Chapter 6 “Whose Least Part Crackt, the Whole Does Fly” The Explosive Case of Prince Rupert’s Drops
- Part III Staging Properties
- Chapter 7 Traveling Music and Theatrics: Jemmy LaRoche’s “Raree Show”
- Chapter 8 Protean Objects in William Percy’s The Aphrodysial or Sea-Feast
- Chapter 9 “I’ll Drown My Book” Prospero’s Grimoire, Adrift
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index