This distracted globe : worldmaking in early modern literature / Marcie Frank, Jonathan Goldberg, and Karen Newman, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frank, Marcie, editor.

Goldberg, Jonathan, editor.

Newman, Karen, 1949- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Material culture in literature.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

England.

History.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essays in this collection investigate the material stuff of the world in Spenser, Cary, and Marlowe; the sociable bonds of authorship, sexuality, and sovereignty in Shakespeare and others; and the universal status of spirit, gender, and empire in the worlds of Vaughan, Donne, and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rajasthani princess. Together, these essays make the case that to address what it takes to make a world in the early modern period requires the kinds of thinking exemplified by theory"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Preface

Introduction: World Enough and Time

Jonathan Goldberg (with Karen Newman and Marcie Frank)

I. Materiality

1. Worldly Muck: Translating Matter in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene

Brent Dawson

2. Extreme Cary

David Glimp

3. Marlowe's Footstools

Aaron Kunin

II. Sociality

4. "Who Is Speaking Here?": Shakespeare's Sonnets, Modern Authorship, and the Contemporary University

Robert Matz

5. Hamlet and the Truth About Friendship

James Kuzner

6. "Racked. to the Uttermost": The Verges of Love and Subjecthood in The Merchant of Venice

Lara Bovilsky

7. Cities of the Stranger

Meredith Evans

III. Universality

8. What It Feels Like to Be a Body: Humoralism, Cognitivism and the Sociological Horizon of Early Modern Religion

Daniel Juan Gil

9. Woman as World: The Female Microcosm/Macrocosm in Shakespeare and Donne

Lynn Maxwell

10. The Nether Lands of Chouboli's Dastan

Madhavi Menon

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823270286

0823270289

9780823270293

0823270297

OCLC:

914326160