Lesser living creatures of the Renaissance / edited by Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana

Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
Physical Description: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Botelho, Keith M. and Campana, Joseph

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Series

Animalibus

Contents

Vol. 1: Insects. Introduction: Creatures / Joseph Campana -- 1. Silkworm: Thomas Moffett, silkworm laureate / Bruce Boehrer -- 2. Ants: Go to the pismire / Shannon Kelley -- 3. Flea: Annihilating the copulative conceit : John Donne's conversion of the "son of dust" into uncertain sacrilege / Gary M. Bouchard -- 4. Fly: Of flyes : the insect mind of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus / Perry Guevara -- 5. Gnat: The clamor of things : Moffett's gnats, Spenser's complaints / Steven Swarbrick -- 6. Maggot: Mutable maggots : corruption, generation, and literary legacy / Emily L. King -- 7. Bee: "Some say the bee stings" : toward an apian poetics / Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana -- 8. Wasp: What is it like to be like a wasp? / Donovan Sherman -- 9. Butterflies and moths: Volatile creatures and elaborate work / Chris Barrett -- 10. Grasshopper and locust: Antimonarchal locusts : translating the grasshopper in the aftermath of the English Civil Wars / Kathryn Vomero Santos -- 11. Beetle: Sycorax's beetles : legacies of science, the occult, and blackness / Roya Biggie -- 12. Spider: The renaissance of spiders : ambivalence, beauty, terror, art / Mary Baine Campbell -- 13. Water bugs: Bugs aquatic : water striders from Moffett to marine science / Dan Brayton -- 14. Worms: Worms of conscience / Karen Raber -- 15. Scorpions: Flame of fire beaten : scorpions in and out of mind / Eric C. Brown -- Epilogue: Creatures / Keith Botelho. -- Vol. 2: Concepts. Introduction: Concepts / Joseph Campana -- 1. Sting: Stinging like a bee in Early Modern England / Julian Yates -- 2. Scale: Lesser living in the Renaissance / Joseph Campana -- 3. Pest: Environmental justice and the (early modern) rhetoric of pest control / Jennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche -- 4. Infestation: Out of Africa : locust infestation, universal history, and the early modern theological imaginary / Lucinda Cole -- 5. Habitat and politics: "Regardles of his gouernaunce" : exploring human sovereignty and political formation in early modern insect habitats / Andrew Fleck -- 6. Consume: Consuming insects / Amy L. Tigner -- 7. Decompose: Worm work / Frances E. Dolan -- 8. Locomotion: Creeping and crawling / Keith Botelho -- 9. Communication: Tettix / Lowell Duckert -- 10. Swarm: Song of the swarm / Derek Woods -- 11. Illumination: "Living lamps" / Jessica Lynn Wolfe -- Epilogue: Concepts / Keith Botelho.

Summary

"Explores the prominence of insects in the literal and symbolic economies of early modern England. Examines concepts cutting across species (insect and otherwise) and draws attention to the work of early modern natural historians"--

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ISBN

9780271094465 volume 1 ; hardcover
027109446X volume 1 ; hardcover
9780271094489 volume 2 ; hardcover
0271094486 volume 2 ; hardcover

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Endowment Note

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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