This distracted globe : worldmaking in early modern literature /

This distracted globe : worldmaking in early modern literature / Marcie Frank, Jonathan Goldberg, and Karen Newman, editors. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource : illustrations

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: World Enough and Time / Part I. Materiality -- 1. Worldly Muck: Translating Matter in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene / 2. Extreme Cary / 3. Marlowe's Footstools / Part II. Sociality -- 4. "Who Is Speaking Here?": Shakespeare's Sonnets, Modern Authorship, and the Contemporary University / 5. Hamlet and the Truth About Friendship / 6. "Racked...to the Uttermost": The Verges of Love and Subjecthood in The Merchant of Venice / 7. Cities of the Stranger / Part III. Universality -- 8. What It Feels Like to Be a Body: Humoralism, Cognitivism and the Sociological Horizon of Early Modern Religion / 9. Woman as World: The Female Microcosm/Macrocosm in Shakespeare and Donne / 10. The Nether Lands of Chouboli's Dastan / Jonathan Goldberg (with Karen Newman and Marcie Frank) -- Brent Dawson -- David Glimp -- Aaron Kunin -- Robert Matz -- James Kuzner -- Lara Bovilsky -- Meredith Evans -- Daniel Juan Gil -- Lynn Maxwell -- Madhavi Menon.

These essays investigate the materiality of the world in Spenser, Cary and Marlowe; its sociability, sexuality and sovereignty in Shakespeare; and the universality of spirit, gender and empire in Vaughan, Donne and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rastanjani princess.



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Material culture in literature.
Literature and society--History--England--16th century.


Electronic Books.

PR428 / .T457 2016