Entertaining Friends: Falstaff ’s Parasitology

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Spenser’s Giant and the New Science 19
5. The Sacramental Neuter and the Missing Body in Robert Southwell’s Poetics 38
6. Reconfiguring Figuring: John Donne as Narrative Poet 58
7. The Narrative Turn against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, and Roger Boyle’s Parthenissa 73
8. Caterpillage: Death and Truthiness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting 91
9. Figuring Belief: George Herbert’s Devotional Creatures 112
10. Entertaining Friends: Falstaff ’s Parasitology 132
11. Skin Merchants: Jack Cade’s Futures and the Figural Politics of Henry VI, Part II 149
12. Notes 171
13. List of Contributors 205
14. Index 207