Explores the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance period 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…mehr
Explores the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance period 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. Kevin Curran is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Lausanne.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kevin Curran is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and editor of the book series "Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy." He is the author of Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies: Law and Distributed Selfhood (Northwestern, 2017) and Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court (Ashgate, 2009).
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 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; Index.
Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 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; Index.
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