{"product_id":"this-distracted-globe-9780823270286","title":"This Distracted Globe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface       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","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406144086359,"sku":"9780823270286","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823270286.jpg?v=1730494679","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/this-distracted-globe-9780823270286","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}