Renaissance Personhood: Materiality, Taxonomy, Process

ISBN-13: 9781474448086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 248 str.

Kevin Curran

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1. What Was Personhood?, Kevin Curran; Part I. Materialities of Personhood: Chairs, Machines, Doors; 2. Daughters, Chairs, and Liberty in Margaret Cavendish’s The Religious, Stephanie Elsky; 3. The Inner Lives of Renaissance Machines, Wendy Beth Hyman; 4. Two Doors: Personhood and Housebreaking in Semayne’s Case and The Comedy of Errors, Colby Gordon; Part II. Taxonomies of Personhood: Status, Species, Race; 5. Should (Bleeding) Trees Have Standing?, Joseph Campana; 6. Aping Personhood, Holly Dugan; 7. Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest, Amanda Bailey; Part III. Processes of Personhood: Eating, Lusting, Mapping; 8. Liquid Macbeth, David B. Goldstein; 9. Things in Action: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129, Macbeth, and Levinas on Shame, John Michael Archer; 10. Edward Herbert’s Cosmopolitan State, Gregory Kneidel; Index.