| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. What Was Personhood?, Kevin Curran -- Part I. Materialities of Personhood: Chairs, Machines, Doors -- 2. Daughters, Chairs, and Liberty in Margaret Cavendish's The Religious, Stephanie Elsky -- 3. The Inner Lives of Renaissance Machines, Wendy Beth Hyman -- 4. Two Doors: Personhood and Housebreaking in Semayne's Case and The Comedy of Errors, Colby Gordon -- Part II. Taxonomies of Personhood: Status, Species, Race -- 5. Should (Bleeding) Trees Have Standing?, Joseph Campana -- 6. Aping Personhood, Holly Dugan -- 7. Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest, Amanda Bailey -- Part III. Processes of Personhood: Eating, Lusting, Mapping -- 8. Liquid Macbeth, David B. Goldstein -- 9. Things in Action: Shakespeare's Sonnet 129, Macbeth, and Levinas on Shame, John Michael Archer -- 10. Edward Herbert's Cosmopolitan State, Gregory Kneidel |
| Summary |
Unfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom. The book assembles an international team of leading scholars to formulate a new account of personhood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one that starts with the objects, environments and physical processes that made personhood legible |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
Individuality -- History
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Philosophy, Renaissance.
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Material culture -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
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Material culture -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
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Renaissance.
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Renaissance.
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Individuality
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Material culture
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Philosophy, Renaissance
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Renaissance
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Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Curran, Kevin, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781474448109 |
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1474448100 |
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9781474448116 |
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1474448119 |
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1474448089 |
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9781474448086 |
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