Renaissance beasts : of animals, humans, and other wonderful creatures

Renaissance beasts : of animals, humans, and other wonderful creatures / edited by Erica Fudge.

Animals, as Levi-Strauss wrote, are good to think with. This collection addresses and reassesses the variety of ways in which animals were used and thought about in Renaissance culture, challenging contemporary as well as historical views of the boundaries and hierarchies humans presume the natural...

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Other Authors: Fudge, Erica
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
Subjects:
1500-1699
Animals and civilization > Europe > History > 16th century.
Animals and civilization > Europe > History > 17th century.
Animals (Philosophy) > Europe > History > 16th century.
Animals (Philosophy) > Europe > History > 17th century.
NATURE > Animals > General.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Animals and civilization
Animals (Philosophy)
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Unpicking the seam : talking animals and reader pleasure in early modern satire / Kathryn Perry
  • "Bitches and queens" : pets and perversion at the court of France's Henri III / Juliana Schiesari
  • Hairy on the inside : metamorphosis and civility in English werewolf texts / S.J. Wiseman
  • Saying nothing concerning the same : on dominion, purity, and meat in early modern England / Erica Fudge
  • "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?" : Shakespeare's animations / Erica Sheen
  • Government by beagle : the impersonal rule of James VI and I / Alan Stewart
  • Reading, writing, and riding horses in early modern England : James Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) and Gervase Markham's Cavelarice (1607) / Elspeth Graham
  • "Can ye not tell a man from a marmoset?" : apes and others on the early modern stage / James Knowles
  • Pliny's literate elephant and the idea of animal language in Renaissance thought / Brian Cummings
  • Reading vital signs : animals and the experimental philosophy / Peter Harrison
  • The menagerie and the labyrinthe : animals at Versailles, 1662-1792 / Matthew Senior.

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