This distracted globe : worldmaking in early modern literature

Folger bibliographic ID: 346235
Folger call number: PR428.M38 D57 2016
Folger holdings ID: 497017

"These 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"--

Edition

First edition

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- 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

Extended title: This distracted globe : worldmaking in early modern literature / Marcie Frank, Jonathan Goldberg, and Karen Newman, editors

English literature Material culture in literature Literature and society LITERARY CRITICISM

editor: Frank, Marcie
editor: Goldberg, Jonathan
editor: Newman, Karen, 1949-