Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance : : Volume 1, Insects /

Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance : : Volume 1, Insects / / ed. by Keith Botelho, Joseph Campana.

Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. Designed for the classroom, the book comprises two volumes—Insects and Concepts—that can be used together or independe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
MitwirkendeR:
Barrett, Chris,
Biggie, Roya,
Boehrer, Bruce,
Botelho, Keith,
Bouchard, Gary M.,
Brayton, Dan,
Brown, Eric C.,
Campana, Joseph,
Campbell, Mary Baine,
Guevara, Perry,
Kelley, Shannon,
King, Emily L.,
Raber, Karen,
Sherman, Donovan,
Swarbrick, Steven,
Vomero Santos, Kathryn,
HerausgeberIn:
Botelho, Keith,
Campana, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Creatures
  • 1 Silkworm Thomas Moffett, Silkworm Laureate
  • 2 Ants Go to the Pismire
  • 3 Flea Annihilating the Copulative Conceit: John Donne’s Conversion of the “son of dust” into Uncertain Sacrilege
  • 4 Fly Of Flyes: The Insect Mind of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
  • 5 Gnat Th e Clamor of Things: Moffett’s Gnats, Spenser’s Complaints
  • 6 Maggot Mutable Maggots: Corruption, Generation, and Literary Legacy
  • 7 Bee “Some say the bee stings”: Toward an Apian Poetics
  • 8 Wasp What Is It Like to Be Like a Wasp?
  • 9 Butterflies and Moths Volatile Creatures and Elaborate Work
  • 10 Grasshopper and Locust Antimonarchal Locusts: Translating the Grasshopper in the Aftermath of the English Civil Wars
  • 11 Beetle Sycorax’s Beetles: Legacies of Science, the Occult, and Blackness
  • 12 Spider Th e Renaissance of Spiders: Ambivalence, Beauty, Terror, Art
  • 13 Water Bugs Bugs Aquatic: Water Striders from Moffett to Marine Science
  • 14 Worms Worms of Conscience
  • 15 Scorpions Flame of Fire Beaten: Scorpions in and out of Mind
  • Epilogue Creatures
  • Contributors
  • Index

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