Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful CreaturesErica Fudge Animals, as Lévi-Strauss wrote, are good to think with. This collection addresses and reassesses the variety of ways in which animals were used and thought about in Renaissance culture, challenging contemporary as well as historic views of the boundaries and hierarchies humans presume the natural world to contain. Taking as its starting point the popularity of speaking animals in sixteenth-century literature and ending with the decline of the imperial Ménagerie during the French Revolution, Renaissance Beasts uses the lens of human-animal relationships to view issues as diverse as human status and power, diet, civilization and the political life, religion and anthropocentrism, spectacle and entertainment, language, science and skepticism, and domestic and courtly cultures. Within these pages scholars from a variety of disciplines discuss numerous kinds of texts--literary, dramatic, philosophical, religious, political--by writers including Calvin, Montaigne, Sidney, Shakespeare, Descartes, Boyle, and Locke. Through analysis of these and other writers, Renaissance Beasts uncovers new and arresting interpretations of Renaissance culture and the broader social assumptions glimpsed through views on matters such as pet ownership and meat consumption. Renaissance Beasts is certainly about animals, but of the many species discussed, it is ultimately humankind that comes under the greatest scrutiny. |
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... VI and I 101 Alan Stewart 7. Reading, Writing, and Riding Horses in Early Modern England: Iames Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) and Gervase Markham's Cavelarice (1607) 116 Elspeth Graham 8. 10. 11. “Can ye not tell a man from Contents.
... VI and I 101 Alan Stewart 7. Reading, Writing, and Riding Horses in Early Modern England: Iames Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) and Gervase Markham's Cavelarice (1607) 116 Elspeth Graham 8. 10. 11. “Can ye not tell a man from Contents.
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... writing and publishinge a scandalous and a libellous Booke againste the State, the Kinge, and all his people.” The book, H istrio-Mastix, was “condempneth . . . to bee in a most ignominyous manner burnte by the hande of the hangman ...
... writing and publishinge a scandalous and a libellous Booke againste the State, the Kinge, and all his people.” The book, H istrio-Mastix, was “condempneth . . . to bee in a most ignominyous manner burnte by the hande of the hangman ...
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... writings were in part motivated by an understanding of the nature of animals, as I have argued in Perceiving Animals. Chris Philo and Chris Wilbert, writing from a geographic perspective, likewise propose that we need to rethink how we ...
... writings were in part motivated by an understanding of the nature of animals, as I have argued in Perceiving Animals. Chris Philo and Chris Wilbert, writing from a geographic perspective, likewise propose that we need to rethink how we ...
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... at, respectively, the social networks of honor involved in the hunting and pos— session of animals, the confusingly humanizing discourses in writings on the eradication of vermin, and the “cultural logic” of the INTRODUCTION.
... at, respectively, the social networks of honor involved in the hunting and pos— session of animals, the confusingly humanizing discourses in writings on the eradication of vermin, and the “cultural logic” of the INTRODUCTION.
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... Writing,” Modern Language Quarterly 59:2 (1998): 171*93 (a version of this article is also included in Boehrer's ... writing the history of animals in “A Left—Handed Blow: Writing the History of Animals,” in RepresentingAnimals, ed ...
... Writing,” Modern Language Quarterly 59:2 (1998): 171*93 (a version of this article is also included in Boehrer's ... writing the history of animals in “A Left—Handed Blow: Writing the History of Animals,” in RepresentingAnimals, ed ...
Contents
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Pets and Perversion at the Court of Frances Henri III | 37 |
Metamorphosis and Civility in English Werewolf Texts | 50 |
On Dominion Purity and Meat in Early Modern England | 70 |
5 Why should a dog a horse a rat have life and thou no breath at all? Shakespeares Animations | 87 |
The Impersonal Rule of James VI and I | 101 |
James Shirleys Hyde Park 1632 and Gervase Markhams Cavelarice 1607 | 116 |
8 Can ye not tell a man from a marmoset? Apes and Others on the Early Modern Stage | 138 |
9 Plinys Literate Elephant and the Idea of Animal Language in Renaissance Thought | 164 |
Animals and the Experimental Philosophy | 186 |
Animals at Versailles 16621792 | 208 |
Contributors | 233 |
Index | 237 |
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