Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
Maureen Quilligan , University of Pennsylvania
Peter Stallybrass , University of Pennsylvania
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GBPThis collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations.
- Collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field
- Revisionary view of Renaissance literature and culture through concentration on object rather than subject - no competing book with the same focus
- Wide appeal across areas of humanities and social sciences
Product details
March 1996Paperback
9780521455893
420 pages
228 × 152 × 23 mm
0.581kg
47 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan and Peter Stallybrass
- Part I. Priority of Objects:
- 1. The ideology of superfluous things: King Lear as period piece Margreta de Grazia
- 2. Rude mechanicals Patricia Parker
- 3. Spenser's domestic domain: poetry property and the Early Modern subject Louis A. Montrose
- Part II. Materialisations:
- 4. Gendering the Crown Stephen Orgel
- 5. The unauthored 1539 volume in which is printed the Hecatomphile, The Flowers of French Poetry and Other Soothing Things Nancy J. Vickers
- 6. Dematerialisations: textile and textual properties in Ovid, Sandys, and Spenser Ann Rosalind Jones
- Part III. Appropriations:
- 7. Freedom service and the trade in slaves: the problem of labour in Paradise Lost Maureen Quilligan
- 8. Feathers and flies: Aphra Behn and the seventeenth-century trade in exotica Margaret W. Ferguson
- 9. Unlearning the Aztec Cantares (Preliminaries to a postcolonial history) Gary Tomlinson
- Part IV. Fetishisms:
- 10. Worn worlds: clothes and identity on the Renaissance stage Peter Stallybrass
- 11. The Countess of Pembroke's literal translation Jonathan Goldberg
- 12. Remnants of the sacred in early modern England Stephen Greenblatt
- Part V. Objections:
- 13. The insincerity of women Marjorie Garber
- 14. Desire is death Jonathan Dollimore
- Index.
