{"product_id":"lesser-living-creatures-of-the-renaissance-9780271094465","title":"Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores the prominence of insects in the literal and symbolic economies of early modern England. Examines concepts cutting across species (insect and otherwise) and draws attention to the work of early modern natural historians. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e brings a welcome and timely focus on early modern understandings of insect life, ideas, and work that stood, as the authors convincingly argue, in the midst of the transformation of natural history ‘as literary authority’ to embodying the new scientific ideas and observational methods of the era. 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Bouchard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. \u003cstrong\u003eFly\u003c\/strong\u003e Of Flyes: The Insect Mind of Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerry Guevara\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. \u003cstrong\u003eGnat\u003c\/strong\u003e The Clamor of Things: Moffett’s Gnats, Spenser’s \u003ci\u003eComplaints\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven Swarbrick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. \u003cstrong\u003eMaggot\u003c\/strong\u003e Mutable Maggots: Corruption, Generation, and Literary Legacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmily L. 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