Format:
1 online resource (256 pages)
ISBN:
9780252091339
Content:
_x000B_Animals, as Levi-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 historical views of the boundaries and hierarchies humans presume the natural world to contain. Through analysis of texts by writers including Calvin, Montaigne, Sidney, Shakespeare, Descartes, Boyle, and Locke, 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.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Unpicking the Seam: Talking Animals and Reader Pleasure in Early Modern Satire -- 2. "Bitches and Queens": Pets and Perversion at the Court of France's Henri III -- 3. Hairy on the Inside: Metamorphosis and Civility in English Werewolf Texts -- 4. Saying Nothing Concerning the Same: On Dominion, Purity, and Meat in Early Modern England -- 5. "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?" Shakespeare's Animations -- 6. Government by Beagel: The Impersonal Rule of James VI and I -- 7. Reading, Writing, and Riding Horses in Early Modern England: James Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) and Gervase Markham's Cavelarice (1607) -- 8. "Can ye not tell a man from a marmoset?" Apes and Others on the Early Modern Stage -- 9. Pliny's Literate Elephant and the Idea of Animal Language in Renaissance Thought -- 10. Reading Vital Signs: Animals and the Experimental Philosophy -- 11. The Menagerie and the Labyrinthe: Animals at Versailles, 1662-1792 -- Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252028809
Additional Edition:
Print version Renaissance Beasts : Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Renaissance beasts Urbana, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Illinois Press, 2004 ISBN 0252028805
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
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Tiere
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Kultur
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Geschichte 1600-1700
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Electronic books
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