Subject and Object in Renaissance CultureMargreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations. |
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... European literature - Renaissance , 1450-1600- History and criticism . 3. Material culture - Europe . I. De Grazia , Margreta . II . Quilligan , Maureen . III . Stallybrass , Peter . IV . Series . CB361.R34 1996 940.2 ' - dc20 95-6179 ...
... European literature - Renaissance , 1450-1600- History and criticism . 3. Material culture - Europe . I. De Grazia , Margreta . II . Quilligan , Maureen . III . Stallybrass , Peter . IV . Series . CB361.R34 1996 940.2 ' - dc20 95-6179 ...
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... Europeans dancing in a scene from the ballet Il Tabacco performed in 1650 in Turin , at the court of Christine , Duchess of Savoy . By permission of The Dance Collection , The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts , Astor ...
... Europeans dancing in a scene from the ballet Il Tabacco performed in 1650 in Turin , at the court of Christine , Duchess of Savoy . By permission of The Dance Collection , The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts , Astor ...
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... Europe ( 1986 ) , Re - membering Milton : The Texts and the Traditions ( 1987 ) , and Feminism and Postmodernism ( a special issue of boundary 2 , 1992 ) . She has recently co - edited Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam , and The ...
... Europe ( 1986 ) , Re - membering Milton : The Texts and the Traditions ( 1987 ) , and Feminism and Postmodernism ( a special issue of boundary 2 , 1992 ) . She has recently co - edited Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam , and The ...
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... Europe , 1540-1620 ( 1990 ) , a special issue of Women's Studies co - edited with Betty Travitsky ( 1992 ) Women in the Renaissance : An Interdisciplinary Forum , articles on Nashe , Sidney , and Webster , and essays in Rewriting the ...
... Europe , 1540-1620 ( 1990 ) , a special issue of Women's Studies co - edited with Betty Travitsky ( 1992 ) Women in the Renaissance : An Interdisciplinary Forum , articles on Nashe , Sidney , and Webster , and essays in Rewriting the ...
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... Europe ( 1986 ) . She is presently at work on a collection of essays about incest and authority in the Renaissance . Peter Stallybrass is Professor of English and a member of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at ...
... Europe ( 1986 ) . She is presently at work on a collection of essays about incest and authority in the Renaissance . Peter Stallybrass is Professor of English and a member of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at ...
Contents
The ideology of superfluous things King Lear as period piece | 17 |
Rude mechanicals | 43 |
Spensers domestic domain poetry property and the Early Modern subject | 83 |
Materializations | 131 |
Gendering the Crown | 133 |
The unauthored 1539 volume in which is printed the Hecatomphile The Flowers of French Poetry and Other Soothing Things | 166 |
Dematerializations textile and textual properties in Ovid Sandys and Spenser | 189 |
Appropriations | 211 |
Unlearning the Aztec cantares preliminaries to a postcolonial history | 260 |
Fetishisms | 287 |
Worn worlds clothes and identity on the Renaissance stage | 289 |
The Countess of Pembrokes literal translation | 321 |
Remnants of the sacred in Early Modern England | 337 |
Objections | 347 |
The insincerity of women | 349 |
Desire is death | 369 |
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