Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture

Name: Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
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ISBN: 9780521455893

ISBN-10: 0521455898

ISBN-13: 9780521455893

Edition: 1996

Authors: Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass, Stephen Orgel, Anne Barton

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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.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/23/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Maureen Quilligan is R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Department Chair at Duke University. She is the author, most recently, of The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's Cite des Dames.



Introduction Margreta de Grazia




Priority of Objects



The ideology of superfluous things: King Lear as period piece




Rude mechanicals




Spenser's domestic domain: poetry property and the Early Modern subject




Materialisations



Gendering the Crown




The unauthored 1539 volume in which is printed the Hecatomphile, The Flowers of French Poetry and Other Soothing Things




Dematerialisations: textile and textual properties in Ovid, Sandys, and Spenser




Appropriations



Freedom service and the trade in slaves: the problem of labour in Paradise Lost




Feathers and flies: Aphra Behn and the seventeenth-century trade in exotica




Unlearning the Aztec Cantares (Preliminaries to a postcolonial history)




Fetishisms



Worn worlds: clothes and identity on the Renaissance stage




The Countess of Pembroke's literal translation




Remnants of the sacred in early modern England




Objections



The insincerity of women




Desire is death



Index