Renaissance Personhood

Materiality, Taxonomy, Process

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Kevin Curran, University of Lausanne) Curran, Kevin (Professor of Early Modern Literature

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-14
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt382 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474448093

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Acknowledgments List of Contributors1. What Was Personhood?, Kevin Curran Part I. Materialities of Personhood: Chairs, Machines, Doors2. 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, Mapping8. 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

Merging law and literature with environmental humanities, this timely and innovative volume discloses personhood as a reifying machine that instrumentalises the liberty it protects and retools subjects as objects in institutions such as slavery and marriage. Yet the authors also present personhood, especially when it passes through literature and art, as an enduring resource for recognising potential subjects in their creaturely variety.