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Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance

Volume 2, Concepts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. The conversations in this two-volume set address the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern natural history and provide new insights into the old question of what it means to be human in a world populated by beasts large and small.Volume 2, Concepts, explores ideas that cut across species, insect and otherwise, both building on and invigorating critical vocabularies developed over nearly two decades of early modern animal studies. The contributors explore topics such as the medical and culinary consumption of insects; extermination campaigns; the auditory and emotive effects of a swarm; insects and politics; and notions of infestation, stinging, and creeping. Throughout, they illuminate how early modern science and literature worked as intersecting systems of knowledge production about the natural world and show definitively how insect life was, and remains, intimately entangled with human life.In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume include Lucinda Cole, Frances E. Dolan, Lowell Duckert, Andrew Fleck, Rebecca Laroche, Jennifer Munroe, Amy L. Tigner, Jessica Lynn Wolfe, Derek Woods, and Julian Yates.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-01-31
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAnimalibus
Antal sidor226
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271094489

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Keith Botelho is Professor of English at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of Renaissance Earwitnesses: Rumor and Early Modern Masculinity. Joseph Campana is William Shakespeare Professor of English and Director of the Center for Environmental Studies at Rice University. He is the author of The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity and the coeditor, with Scott Maisano, of Renaissance Posthumanism.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction ConceptsJoseph Campana1.Sting Stinging like a Bee in Early Modern EnglandJulian Yates2. Scale Lesser Living in the RenaissanceJoseph Campana3. Pest Environmental Justice and the (Early Modern) Rhetoric of Pest ControlJennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche4. Infestation Out of Africa: Locust Infestation, Universal History, and the Early Modern Theological ImaginaryLucinda Cole5. Habitat and Politics “Regardles of his gouernaunce”: Exploring Human Sovereignty and Political Formation in Early Modern Insect HabitatsAndrew Fleck6. Consume Consuming InsectsAmy L. Tigner7. Decompose Worm WorkFrances E. Dolan8. Locomotion Creeping and CrawlingKeith Botelho9. Communication TettixLowell Duckert10. Swarm Song of the SwarmDerek Woods11. Illumination “Living Lamps”Jessica Lynn WolfeEpilogue ConceptsKeith BotelhoList of ContributorsIndex

“This is a superb and richly varied collection that does justice to the dazzling variety of entomological writing in the Renaissance. . . . Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance makes a significant contribution to animal studies, the environmental humanities and the history of science, particularly in its attention to scale and the ways that literary insects both underwrote and pressured the centrality of analogy as the episteme of pre-Enlightenment natural history.”—Todd Andrew Borlik Renaissance Studies