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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Barrett, Chris (Collaborateur), Biggie, Roya (Collaborateur), Boehrer, Bruce (Collaborateur), Botelho, Keith (Collaborateur, Éditeur intellectuel), Bouchard, Gary M. (Collaborateur), Brayton, Dan (Collaborateur), Brown, Eric C. (Collaborateur), Campana, Joseph (Collaborateur, Éditeur intellectuel), Campbell, Mary Baine (Collaborateur), Guevara, Perry (Collaborateur), Kelley, Shannon (Collaborateur), King, Emily L. (Collaborateur), Raber, Karen (Collaborateur), Sherman, Donovan (Collaborateur), Swarbrick, Steven (Collaborateur), Vomero Santos, Kathryn (Collaborateur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2023]
Collection:Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures
Sujets:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Insects in literature.
Insectes dans la littérature.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603).
English literature > Early modern
Insects in literature
Ben Jonson.
Edmund Spenser.
John Donne.
Thomas Moffett.
William Shakespeare.
allegory.
ant.
bee.
bees.
bioluminescence.
biopolitics.
bug.
butterfly.
charisma.
cicada.
compost.
consumption.
creature.
creeping.
disease.
earthworm.
ecocriticism.
ecofeminism.
ecology.
entomology.
flea.
gnat.
grasshopper.
habitat.
hornet.
insect.
locomotion.
locust.
maggots.
moth.
narrative.
natural history.
noise.
observation.
pest.
recipes.
reproduction.
scale.
scorpion.
sexuality.
silkworm.
sovereignty.
spider.
sting.
swarm.
voice.
wasps.
water bug.
worm.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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