Renaissance Personhood : : Materiality, Taxonomy, Process /

Renaissance Personhood : : Materiality, Taxonomy, Process / / Kevin Curran.

Explores the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance periodOffers the first sustained study of the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance periodProvides a study of personhood from a materialist perspectiveModels new way of entering posthumanist critique – animal studies, eco...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Curran, Kevin,
MitwirkendeR:
Archer, John Michael,
Bailey, Amanda,
Campana, Joseph,
Curran, Kevin,
Dugan, Holly,
Elsky, Stephanie,
Goldstein, David B.,
Gordon, Colby,
Hyman, Wendy Beth,
Kneidel, Gregory,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • 1 What Was Personhood?
  • Part I Materialities of Personhood: Chairs, Machines, Doors
  • 2 Daughters, Chairs, and Liberty in Margaret Cavendish’s The Religious
  • 3 The Inner Lives of Renaissance Machines
  • 4 Two Doors: Personhood and Housebreaking in Semayne’s Case and The Comedy of Errors
  • Part II Taxonomies of Personhood: Status, Species, Race
  • 5 Should (Bleeding) Trees Have Standing?
  • 6 Aping Personhood
  • 7 Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest
  • Part III Processes of Personhood: Eating, Lusting, Mapping
  • 8 Liquid Macbeth
  • 9 Things in Action: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129, Macbeth, and Levinas on Shame
  • 10 Edward Herbert’s Cosmopolitan State
  • Index

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