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Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture

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Availability:In StockContributor:Karen RaberSeries:Haney FoundationPublish date:2013-08-30Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812245363ISBN-10:812245369UPC:9780812245363Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Popular CultureSize:9.20 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCMFVEK3RJ

Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species distinctions. The material conditions of the early modern world brought humans and animals into complex interspecies relationships that have not been fully accounted for in critical readings of the period's philosophical, scientific, or literary representations of animals. Where such prior readings have focused on the role of reason in debates about human exceptionalism, this book turns instead to a series of cultural sites in which we find animal and human bodies sharing environments, mutually transforming and defining one another's lives.

To uncover the animal body's role in anatomy, eroticism, architecture, labor, and consumption, Karen Raber analyzes canonical works including More's Utopia, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, and Sidney's poetry, situating them among readings of human and equine anatomical texts, medical recipes, theories of architecture and urban design, husbandry manuals, and horsemanship treatises. Raber reconsiders interactions between environment, body, and consciousness that we find in early modern human-animal relations. Scholars of the Renaissance period recognized animals' fundamental role in fashioning what we call "culture," she demonstrates, providing historical narratives about embodiment and the cultural constructions of species difference that are often overlooked in ecocritical and posthumanist theory that attempts to address the "question of the animal."
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812245363ISBN-10:812245369UPC:9780812245363Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Popular CultureSize:9.20 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCMFVEK3RJ
Karen Raber is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and author of Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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