1st Edition
Birds and Other Creatures in Renaissance Literature Shakespeare, Descartes, and Animal Studies
By Rebecca Ann Bach
Copyright 2018
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and 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. However, post-Cartesian readings of Shakespeare and other Renaissance literature have misunderstood Renaissance... Read more
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
Biography
Rebecca Ann Bach is Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
