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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... political , and cultural history . While the earliest New Historicist work was criticized for a narrow and anecdotal view of history , it also served as an important stimulus for post - structuralist , feminist , Marxist , and ...
... political , and cultural history . While the earliest New Historicist work was criticized for a narrow and anecdotal view of history , it also served as an important stimulus for post - structuralist , feminist , Marxist , and ...
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... Political Shakespeare : New Essays in Cultural Materialism ( 1985 ; second edition , 1994 ) . He has written on the cultural politics of perversion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on sexuality and transgression in the ...
... Political Shakespeare : New Essays in Cultural Materialism ( 1985 ; second edition , 1994 ) . He has written on the cultural politics of perversion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on sexuality and transgression in the ...
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... Politics of Literature : Jonson , Shakespeare , Donne , and their Contemporaries ( 1983 ) , and Endlesse Worke : Spenser and the Structures of Discourse ( 1981 ) . He has co - edited with Stephen Orgel John Milton ( 1991 ) for the ...
... Politics of Literature : Jonson , Shakespeare , Donne , and their Contemporaries ( 1983 ) , and Endlesse Worke : Spenser and the Structures of Discourse ( 1981 ) . He has co - edited with Stephen Orgel John Milton ( 1991 ) for the ...
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... Politics of Reading ( 1983 ) , and The Allegory of Female Authority : Christine de Pizan's " Cité des Dames " ( 1991 ) , and the co - editor of Rewriting the Renaissance : The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe ...
... Politics of Reading ( 1983 ) , and The Allegory of Female Authority : Christine de Pizan's " Cité des Dames " ( 1991 ) , and the co - editor of Rewriting the Renaissance : The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe ...
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... political or scientific or artistic will . As Ernst Cassirer maintains in The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy - the philosophical study intended to supplement Burckhardt's cultural history the subject's relation to ...
... political or scientific or artistic will . As Ernst Cassirer maintains in The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy - the philosophical study intended to supplement Burckhardt's cultural history the subject's relation to ...
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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Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture Margreta de Grazia,Maureen Quilligan,Peter Stallybrass No preview available - 1996 |
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