Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance : Volume 1, Insects /

Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about--and with--insect and arachnid life. Designed for the classroom, the book comprises two volumes--Insects and Concepts--that can be used together or indep...

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Otros Autores: Vomero Santos, Kathryn (Contribuidor), Swarbrick, Steven (Contribuidor), Sherman, Donovan (Contribuidor), Raber, Karen (Contribuidor), King, Emily L. (Contribuidor), Kelley, Shannon (Contribuidor), Guevara, Perry (Contribuidor), Campbell, Mary Baine (Contribuidor), Campana, Joseph (Editor , Contribuidor), Brown, Eric C. (Contribuidor), Brayton, Dan (Contribuidor), Bouchard, Gary M. (Contribuidor), Botelho, Keith (Editor , Contribuidor), Boehrer, Bruce (Contribuidor), Biggie, Roya (Contribuidor), Barrett, Chris (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Insects in literature.
English literature > Early modern.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603).
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Creatures
  • 1 Silkworm Thomas Moffett, Silkworm Laureate
  • 2 Ants Go to the Pismire
  • 3 Flea Annihilating the Copulative Conceit: John Donne's Conversion of the "son of dust" into Uncertain Sacrilege
  • 4 Fly Of Flyes: The Insect Mind of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
  • 5 Gnat Th e Clamor of Things: Moffett's Gnats, Spenser's Complaints
  • 6 Maggot Mutable Maggots: Corruption, Generation, and Literary Legacy
  • 7 Bee "Some say the bee stings": Toward an Apian Poetics
  • 8 Wasp What Is It Like to Be Like a Wasp?
  • 9 Butterflies and Moths Volatile Creatures and Elaborate Work
  • 10 Grasshopper and Locust Antimonarchal Locusts: Translating the Grasshopper in the Aftermath of the English Civil Wars
  • 11 Beetle Sycorax's Beetles: Legacies of Science, the Occult, and Blackness
  • 12 Spider Th e Renaissance of Spiders: Ambivalence, Beauty, Terror, Art
  • 13 Water Bugs Bugs Aquatic: Water Striders from Moffett to Marine Science
  • 14 Worms Worms of Conscience
  • 15 Scorpions Flame of Fire Beaten: Scorpions in and out of Mind
  • Epilogue Creatures
  • Contributors
  • Index

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