Making Worlds : : Global Invention in the Early Modern Period /

Making Worlds : : Global Invention in the Early Modern Period / / ed. by Bronwen Wilson, Angela Vanhaelen.

Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and perform...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Carrie,
Badir, Patricia,
Bleichmar, Daniela,
Chang, Ting,
Daniele, Elisa Antonietta,
Fetvací, Emine,
Hollis, Gavin,
Kersey, Kristopher W.,
Massey, Lyle,
Pohl, John M.D.,
Schmidt, Benjamin,
Shank, J. B.,
Smith, Helen,
Vanhaelen, Angela,
Weststeijn, Thijs,
Wilson, Bronwen,
Zborover, Danny,
HerausgeberIn:
Vanhaelen, Angela ,
Wilson, Bronwen,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.) :; 20 b&w illustrations, 70 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part I: Material Flows
  • 2 The Early Modern Fold: Pleated Media
  • 3 From Textile to Text: Cloth, Slavery, and the Archive in the Dutch Atlantic
  • 4 Drawing Worlds: Bodies and Smoke in the Courtly Ballet Il Tabacco (1650)
  • 5 From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art and Ambivalence in Early Modern Japan
  • 6 Eggs, Cheese, and (Francis) Bacon
  • Part II: In-Between Spaces
  • 7 The Production of Imprecision: Reframing Non-European Objects in Early Modern European Collections
  • 8 Le Jeu du monde : Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern France
  • 9 The World Contained in an Imperial Ottoman Album
  • 10 World Building, the Folger Folios, and the University of British Columbia
  • 11 Ascetic Ecology: Landscape of a Desert Saint
  • 12 The End of All: Worldliness, Piety, and the Social Life of Maps in the Post-Reformation English Household
  • 13 Enlightenment Cosmology: A Medialogical Interpretation
  • 14 Masked Alliances: Global Politics and Economy in the Art and Performance Rituals of Mexico’s Indigenous People
  • 15 Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch Republic
  • Contributors
  • Index

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