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Book SynopsisThese 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.
Trade Review"From Spenser's toxic slime to Persian story theater, with way-stations that include Marlovian foot-stools, Horatian friendship, and Paracelsian ecology, this sparkling and timely collection of essays visits a dazzling range of world-making aspirations in Renaissance and early modern literature." -- -Julia Reinhard Lupton The University of California, Irvine
Table of ContentsPreface 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
