Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Introduction 1
7. I Materiality in motion 19
8. 1 How to do things with things 21
9. 2 Suspenseful gifts 44
10. 3 Playing with linear time 67
11. II Ephemeral materialities 93
12. 4 A strange object of aesthetic desire 95
13. 6 Cosmopolitical Shakespeares (on Macbeth’s bubbles) 134
14. III Material (after)lives 157
15. 7 The multiple lives of the Ruthwell Monument 159
16. 9 Meta-poetic matter in John Lydgate’s Troy Book 223
17. 10 Marco Polo’s boqtaq 244
18. Bibliography 267