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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... Material culture - Europe . I. De Grazia , Margreta . II . Quilligan , Maureen . III . Stallybrass , Peter . IV . Series . CB361.R34 1996 940.2 ' - dc20 95-6179 CIP ISBN 0 521 45471 9 hardback ISBN 0 521 45589 8 paperback Transferred to ...
... Material culture - Europe . I. De Grazia , Margreta . II . Quilligan , Maureen . III . Stallybrass , Peter . IV . Series . CB361.R34 1996 940.2 ' - dc20 95-6179 CIP ISBN 0 521 45471 9 hardback ISBN 0 521 45589 8 paperback Transferred to ...
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... material world that is the aggregate of such products . Insofar as the two could be said to conjoin , it seems to be in the unhappy process of commodification : the object comes to overpower the subject , myster- iously incorporating ...
... material world that is the aggregate of such products . Insofar as the two could be said to conjoin , it seems to be in the unhappy process of commodification : the object comes to overpower the subject , myster- iously incorporating ...
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... material things - land , clothes , tools - might constitute subjects who in turn own , use , and transform them . The form / matter relation of Aristotelian metaphysics is thereby provisionally reversed : it is the material object that ...
... material things - land , clothes , tools - might constitute subjects who in turn own , use , and transform them . The form / matter relation of Aristotelian metaphysics is thereby provisionally reversed : it is the material object that ...
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... material objects impress immaterial subjects . In A Midsummer Night's Dream , the crafted objects of the " rude mechanicals " work upon the " airy nothings " of the imagination . Snug's craft as joiner is of particular importance , for ...
... material objects impress immaterial subjects . In A Midsummer Night's Dream , the crafted objects of the " rude mechanicals " work upon the " airy nothings " of the imagination . Snug's craft as joiner is of particular importance , for ...
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... material differences between volumes , thereby effacing their status as discrete objects . When released from service to sovereign authorship , these objective texts can be seen to have their own surprisingly proliferative semantics ...
... material differences between volumes , thereby effacing their status as discrete objects . When released from service to sovereign authorship , these objective texts can be seen to have their own surprisingly proliferative semantics ...
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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