Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance : Volume 1, Insects Hardback
Edited by Keith (Professor of English, Kennesaw State University) Botelho, Joseph (Alan Dugald McKillop Professor of English, Rice University) Campana
Part of the Animalibus series
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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 independently. Each addresses the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern natural history and provides new insights into the old question of what it means to be human in a world populated by beasts large and small. Volume 1, Insects, examines how insects burrowed into the literal and symbolic economies of the era.
The contributors consider diminutive creatures—such as bees and beetles, flies and fleas, silkworms and spiders—and their depictions in plays, poetry, fables, natural histories, and more.
In doing so, they illuminate how early modern science and literature worked as intersecting systems of knowledge production about the natural world and show definitively how insect life was, and remains, intimately entangled with human life. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume include Chris Barrett, Roya Biggie, Bruce Boehrer, Gary Bouchard, Dan Brayton, Eric Brown, Mary Baine Campbell, Perry Guevara, Shannon Kelley, Emily King, Karen Raber, Kathryn Vomero Santos, Donovan Sherman, and Steven Swarbrick.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:294 pages, 11 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication Date:31/01/2023
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- ISBN:9780271094465
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:294 pages, 11 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication Date:31/01/2023
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- ISBN:9780271094465