Title & Author:

Subject and object in Renaissance culture / edited by Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, and Peter Stallybrass.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Description:

xvii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Priority of objects. The ideology of superfluous things : King Lear as period piece / Margreta de Grazia -- "Rude mechanicals" / Patricia Parker -- Spenser's domestic domain : poetry, property, and the Early Modern subject / Louis A. Montrose. Part II. Materializations. Gendering the crown / Stephen Orgel -- The unauthored 1539 volume in which is printed the Hecatomphile, The Flowers of french poetry, and Other soothing things / Nancy J. Vickers -- Dematerializations : textile and textual properties in Ovid, Sandys, and Spenser / Ann Rosalind Jones. Part III. Appropriations. Freedom, service, and trade in slaves : the problem of labor in Paradise lost / Maureen Quilligan -- Feathers and flies : Aphra Behn and the seventeenth-century trade in exotica / Margaret W. Ferguson -- Unlearning the Aztec cantares (preliminaries to a postcolonial history) / Gary Tomlinson. Part IV. Fetishisms. Worn worlds : clothes and identity on the Renaissance stage / Peter Stallybrass -- The Countess of Pembroke's literal translation / Jonathan Goldberg -- Remnants of the sacred in Early Modern England / Stephen Greenblatt. Part V. Objections. The insincerity of women / Marjorie Garber -- Desire is death / Jonathan Dollimore.

Summary:

This collection of 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.

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ISBN:

0521454719
9780521454711
0521455898 (pbk.)
9780521455893 (pbk.)

Subject:

Renaissance.
European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism.
Material culture in literature.
Material culture Europe.
Ethnology.
European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Anthropology, Cultural
Littérature européenne 1450-1600 (Renaissance) Histoire et critique.
Culture matérielle dans la littérature.
Culture matérielle Europe.
Ethnologie.
European literature Renaissance
Material culture
Emblem
Englisch
Kunst
Literatur
Sachkultur
Aufsatzsammlung
Kongress
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Letterkunde.
Culture matérielle Europe Histoire Renaissance.
Littérature européenne Renaissance.
Arts de la Renaissance.
Culture matérielle Dans l'art.
Europe.
Culture

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress Philadelphia (Pa.) 1992.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

De Grazia, Margreta.
Quilligan, Maureen, 1944-
Stallybrass, Peter.
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110940
Call No.: ID CB361.R34; ID:96-B1830
Status: Available