Birds and Other Creatures in Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare, Descartes, and Animal Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367667641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Rebecca Ann Bach

Opis

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It examines how Renaissance literature and natural history display an unequal creaturely world: all creatures were categorized hierarchically, yet post-Cartesian readings have misunderstood Renaissance hierarchical creaturely relati

Spis treści

CONTENTS:

Introduction: Inequality for All

Chapter One: Feathers, Wings, and Souls

Chapter Two: The Creaturely Continuum in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Chapter Three: The Lively Creaturely/Object World of The Rape of Lucrece

Chapter Four: Falstaff and "the Modern Constitution"

Chapter Five: The Winter’s Tale’s Pedestrian and Elite Creatures

Conclusion: Human Grandiosity/ Human Responsibility

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Rebecca Ann Bach is Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.