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This Distracted Globe

Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016

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Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essays in this collection investigate the material stuff of the world in Spenser, Cary, and Marlowe; the sociable bonds of authorship, sexuality, and sovereignty in Shakespeare and others; and the universal status of spirit, gender, and empire in the worlds of Vaughan, Donne, and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rajasthani princess. Together, these essays make the case that to address what it takes to make a world in the early modern period requires the kinds of thinking exemplified by theory.

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Contributor: Jonathan Goldberg Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Emory University. His many books include Come As You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Saint Marks: Words, Images, and What Persists; Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility; and Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. His writing centers on early modernity but ranges from Sappho and Willa Cather to Patricia Highsmith and Todd Haynes in exploring questions of materiality and sexuality.

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This provocative and wide-ranging collection of essays is a tribute to Jonathan Goldberg... it is a fitting mirror and celebration of Goldberg's own influential body of scholarship. --- In essays ranging from the Faerie Queene to contemporary performances of Urdu erotic tales, from Marlowe’s footstools to cognitive theory, the essays take up the productively vexed nature of distinctions of gender and sexuality, and the porousness of the divide between matter and spirit, friend and enemy, animate and inanimate. --- From Spenser’s toxic slime to Persian story theater, with way-stations that include Marlovian foot-stools, Horatian friendship, and Paracelsian ecology, this sparkling and timely collection of essays visits a dazzling range of world-making aspirations in Renaissance and early modern literature.---—Julia Reinhard Lupton, The University of California, Irvine

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

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    Introduction: World Enough and Time

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    Jonathan Goldberg, Karen Newman and Marcie Frank
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  • Part I. Materiality
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    1. Worldly Muck: Translating Matter in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene

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    Brent Dawson
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    2. Extreme Cary

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    David Glimp
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    3. Marlowe’s Footstools

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    Aaron Kunin
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  • Part II. Sociality
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    4. “Who Is Speaking Here?”: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Modern Authorship, and the Contemporary University

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    Robert Matz
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    5. Hamlet and the Truth about Friendship

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    James Kuzner
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    6. “Racked . . . to the Uttermost”: The Verges of Love and Subjecthood in The Merchant of Venice

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    Lara Bovilsky
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    7. Cities of the Stranger

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    Meredith Evans
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  • Part III. Universality
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    8. What It Feels Like to Be a Body: Humoralism, Cognitivism, and the Sociological Horizon of Early Modern Religion

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    Daniel Juan Gil
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    9. Woman as World: The Female Microcosm / Macrocosm in Shakespeare and Donne

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    Lynn Maxwell
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    10. The Nether Lands of Chouboli’s Dastan

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    Madhavi Menon
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    Acknowledgments

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    List of Contributors

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    Index

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Keywords for this book
Marlowe; materiality; Renaissance Literature; sexuality; Shakespeare; sovereignty; Worlds
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