Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance : Volume 2, Concepts /

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. The conversations in this two-volume set address the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early m...

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Other Authors: Yates, Julian (Contributor), Woods, Derek (Contributor), Wolfe, Jessica Lynn (Contributor), Tigner, Amy L. (Contributor), Munroe, Jennifer (Contributor), Laroche, Rebecca (Contributor), Fleck, Andrew (Contributor), Duckert, Lowell (Contributor), Dolan, Frances E. (Contributor), Cole, Lucinda (Contributor), Campana, Joseph (Editor, Contributor), Botelho, Keith (Editor, Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Concepts
  • 1 Sting Stinging like a Bee in Early Modern England
  • 2 Scale Lesser Living in the Renaissance
  • 3 Pest Environmental Justice and the (Early Modern) Rhetoric of Pest Control
  • 4 Infestation Out of Africa: Locust Infestation, Universal History, and the Early Modern Th eological Imaginary
  • 5 Habitat and Politics "Regardles of his gouernaunce": Exploring Human Sovereignty and Political Formation in Early Modern Insect Habitats
  • 6 Consume Consuming Insects
  • 7 Decompose Worm Work
  • 8 Locomotion Creeping and Crawling
  • 9 Communication Tettix
  • 10 Swarm Song of the Swarm
  • 11 Illumination "Living Lamps"
  • Epilogue Concepts
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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