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Renaissance beasts : of animals, humans, and other wonderful creatures /
Animals, as Levi-Strauss wrote, are good to think with. This collection addresses and reassesses the variety of ways in which animals were used and thought about in Renaissance culture, challenging contemporary as well as historical views of the boundaries and hierarchies humans presume the natural...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2004]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Unpicking the seam : talking animals and reader pleasure in early modern satire / Kathryn Perry
- "Bitches and queens" : pets and perversion at the court of France's Henri III / Juliana Schiesari
- Hairy on the inside : metamorphosis and civility in English werewolf texts / S.J. Wiseman
- Saying nothing concerning the same : on dominion, purity, and meat in early modern England / Erica Fudge
- "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?" : Shakespeare's animations / Erica Sheen
- Government by beagle : the impersonal rule of James VI and I / Alan Stewart
- Reading, writing, and riding horses in early modern England : James Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) and Gervase Markham's Cavelarice (1607) / Elspeth Graham
- "Can ye not tell a man from a marmoset?" : apes and others on the early modern stage / James Knowles
- Pliny's literate elephant and the idea of animal language in Renaissance thought / Brian Cummings
- Reading vital signs : animals and the experimental philosophy / Peter Harrison
- The menagerie and the labyrinthe : animals at Versailles, 1662-1792 / Matthew Senior.