Renaissance Personhood

Materiality, Taxonomy, Process

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4808-6 (ISBN)

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Explores the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance period
Offers the first sustained study of the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance periodProvides a study of personhood from a materialist perspectiveModels new way of entering posthumanist critique – animal studies, ecocriticism, and food studies – into conversation with legal theory, cultural history, and literary studies
Unfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom. The book assembles an international team of leading scholars to formulate a new account of personhood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one that starts with the objects, environments and physical processes that made personhood legible.

Kevin Curran is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and general editor of Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. His books include Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment (2024), Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies (2017), Renaissance Personhood (2020) and Shakespeare and Judgment (2017).

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

1. What Was Personhood?, Kevin Curran

Part I. Materialities of Personhood: Chairs, Machines, Doors

2. Daughters, Chairs, and Liberty in Margaret Cavendish’s The Religious, Stephanie Elsky

3. The Inner Lives of Renaissance Machines, Wendy Beth Hyman

4. Two Doors: Personhood and Housebreaking in Semayne’s Case and The Comedy of Errors, Colby Gordon

Part II. Taxonomies of Personhood: Status, Species, Race

5. Should (Bleeding) Trees Have Standing?, Joseph Campana

6. Aping Personhood, Holly Dugan

7. Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest, Amanda Bailey

Part III. Processes of Personhood: Eating, Lusting, Mapping

8. Liquid Macbeth, David B. Goldstein

9. Things in Action: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129, Macbeth, and Levinas on Shame, John Michael Archer

10. Edward Herbert’s Cosmopolitan State, Gregory Kneidel

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-4808-9 / 1474448089
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4808-6 / 9781474448086
Zustand	Neuware