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Dynamic matter : transforming Renaissance objects /

"Investigates the life histories of Renaissance objects as they experience transformations, and demonstrates these objects' dynamic potential to transform their environments and others as they journey through time and space"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wood, Jennifer Linhart (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Series:Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : transformative materiality and Renaissance dynamics / Jennifer Linhart Wood
  • Objects within/ without the body
  • "Farre fetched and deare bought" : the global cosmetic exchange between Elizabeth I, Melike Safiye Sultan, and the Kira Esperanza Malchi / Josie Schoel
  • Comb poems / Erika Mary Boeckeler
  • Variable vestments and clothing conversions : piecing out the past in Tudor Exeter / Naomi Howell
  • Networking objects
  • Bird-people, utopias, Arte plumaria : the influence of Native American feathers on Renaissance literature and culture / Edward McLean Test
  • Needlework patterns on the move : traveling toward (re)incarnation / Anna Riehl Bertolet
  • "Whose least part crackt, the whole does fly" : the explosive case of Prince Rupert's drops / Abbie Weinberg
  • Staging properties
  • Traveling music and theatrics : Jemmy LaRoche's "Raree show" / Sarah F. Williams
  • Protean objects in William Percy's The aphrodysial or sea-feast / Maria Shmygol
  • "I'll drown my book" : Prospero's Grimoire, adrift / Emily E. F. Philbrick.