Marjorie Rubright is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she directs the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. She is founder of the Renaissance of the Earth project, an interdisciplinary research collaboration that engages the early modern past with questions about our environmental future with the goal of discovering diverse avenues for creating sustainable and equitable life. She is the author of Doppelgänger Dilemmas: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2014), and co-author of “So Long Lives This”: A Celebration of Shakespeare's Life and Works, 1616-2016 (2016), winner of the 2017 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Award. Her public humanities work includes the curation, most recently, of the 2023-2024 campuswide special exhibit: “Shakespeare Unbound.” Stephen Spiess is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature at Babson College. His essays on Shakespeare and the interrelations of sex, language, embodiment and knowledge have appeared in Modern Philology, Shakespeare Survey, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment, and Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World. His book, Shakespeare and the Making of English Whoredom, is forthcoming. A highly decorated teacher, he has received a Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Teaching and a Babson Pride Award, for significant contributions to the college’s LGBTQ+ community.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsSeries Editors' PrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: From Keywords to LogomotivesMarjorie Rubright and Stephen Spiess 1. BethinkHeather Hirschfeld 2. BlackPaul Yachnin3. The BlushValerie Traub 4. Conversio/ConversionKatharina Piechocki 5. Corn/MaizeAllison Margaret Bigelow 6. CynefinElaine Treharne 7. DesertDerek Higginbotham 8. DiferenciasEsteban Crespo 9. Ethnic/EthnicityCarla Della Gatta 10. FrolicJeffrey Masten 11. GrossAdam Zucker 12. Habla de NegrosNicholas R. Jones 13. HaremBernadette Andrea 14. Hew/HueColby Gordon 15. ImpotentAri Friedlander 16. Post-Christine Varnado 17. ProfitKathryn Vomero Santos 18. ProjectDebapriya Sarkar 19. SilenusIan Smith 20. SimianHolly Dugan21. StudyAndrew Hui 22. Taste/DhawqJane Mikkelson 23. TraductioBelén Bistué 24. TransportJoseph Gamble 25. Venture CapitalNicole LegnaniIndex

Logomotives is a beautifully crafted study of the world-changing power of words. Ranging across diverse geographies and cultures, these essays show how words catalyse cultural, political and epistemological change in the pre-modern world. This collection will be an indispensable reference for anyone interested in the force language exerts across history.

Marjorie Rubright is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she directs the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. She is founder of the Renaissance of the Earth project, an interdisciplinary research collaboration that engages the early modern past with questions about our environmental future with the goal of discovering diverse avenues for creating sustainable and equitable life. She is the author of Doppelgänger Dilemmas: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2014), and co-author of “So Long Lives This”: A Celebration of Shakespeare's Life and Works, 1616-2016 (2016), winner of the 2017 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Award. Her public humanities work includes the curation, most recently, of the 2023-2024 campuswide special exhibit: “Shakespeare Unbound.” Stephen Spiess is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature at Babson College. His essays on Shakespeare and the interrelations of sex, language, embodiment and knowledge have appeared in Modern Philology, Shakespeare Survey, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment, and Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World. His book, Shakespeare and the Making of English Whoredom, is forthcoming. A highly decorated teacher, he has received a Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Teaching and a Babson Pride Award, for significant contributions to the college’s LGBTQ+ community.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsSeries Editors' PrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: From Keywords to LogomotivesMarjorie Rubright and Stephen Spiess 1. BethinkHeather Hirschfeld 2. BlackPaul Yachnin3. The BlushValerie Traub 4. Conversio/ConversionKatharina Piechocki 5. Corn/MaizeAllison Margaret Bigelow 6. CynefinElaine Treharne 7. DesertDerek Higginbotham 8. DiferenciasEsteban Crespo 9. Ethnic/EthnicityCarla Della Gatta 10. FrolicJeffrey Masten 11. GrossAdam Zucker 12. Habla de NegrosNicholas R. Jones 13. HaremBernadette Andrea 14. Hew/HueColby Gordon 15. ImpotentAri Friedlander 16. Post-Christine Varnado 17. ProfitKathryn Vomero Santos 18. ProjectDebapriya Sarkar 19. SilenusIan Smith 20. SimianHolly Dugan21. StudyAndrew Hui 22. Taste/DhawqJane Mikkelson 23. TraductioBelén Bistué 24. TransportJoseph Gamble 25. Venture CapitalNicole LegnaniIndex

Logomotives is a beautifully crafted study of the world-changing power of words. Ranging across diverse geographies and cultures, these essays show how words catalyse cultural, political and epistemological change in the pre-modern world. This collection will be an indispensable reference for anyone interested in the force language exerts across history.

Marjorie Rubright is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she directs the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. She is founder of the Renaissance of the Earth project, an interdisciplinary research collaboration that engages the early modern past with questions about our environmental future with the goal of discovering diverse avenues for creating sustainable and equitable life. She is the author of Doppelgänger Dilemmas: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2014), and co-author of “So Long Lives This”: A Celebration of Shakespeare's Life and Works, 1616-2016 (2016), winner of the 2017 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Award. Her public humanities work includes the curation, most recently, of the 2023-2024 campuswide special exhibit: “Shakespeare Unbound.” Stephen Spiess is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature at Babson College. His essays on Shakespeare and the interrelations of sex, language, embodiment and knowledge have appeared in Modern Philology, Shakespeare Survey, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment, and Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World. His book, Shakespeare and the Making of English Whoredom, is forthcoming. A highly decorated teacher, he has received a Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Teaching and a Babson Pride Award, for significant contributions to the college’s LGBTQ+ community.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsSeries Editors' PrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: From Keywords to LogomotivesMarjorie Rubright and Stephen Spiess 1. BethinkHeather Hirschfeld 2. BlackPaul Yachnin3. The BlushValerie Traub 4. Conversio/ConversionKatharina Piechocki 5. Corn/MaizeAllison Margaret Bigelow 6. CynefinElaine Treharne 7. DesertDerek Higginbotham 8. DiferenciasEsteban Crespo 9. Ethnic/EthnicityCarla Della Gatta 10. FrolicJeffrey Masten 11. GrossAdam Zucker 12. Habla de NegrosNicholas R. Jones 13. HaremBernadette Andrea 14. Hew/HueColby Gordon 15. ImpotentAri Friedlander 16. Post-Christine Varnado 17. ProfitKathryn Vomero Santos 18. ProjectDebapriya Sarkar 19. SilenusIan Smith 20. SimianHolly Dugan21. StudyAndrew Hui 22. Taste/DhawqJane Mikkelson 23. TraductioBelén Bistué 24. TransportJoseph Gamble 25. Venture CapitalNicole LegnaniIndex

Logomotives is a beautifully crafted study of the world-changing power of words. Ranging across diverse geographies and cultures, these essays show how words catalyse cultural, political and epistemological change in the pre-modern world. This collection will be an indispensable reference for anyone interested in the force language exerts across history.