This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature

Jonathan Goldberg; Karen Newman

Published by Fordham University Press 2016

This Distracted Globe

Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature

Jonathan Goldberg and Karen Newman
Edited by: Marcie Frank

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823270316

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About this book

These essays investigate the materiality of the world in Spenser, Cary and Marlowe; its sociability, sexuality and sovereignty in Shakespeare; and the universality of spirit, gender and empire in Vaughan, Donne and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rastanjani princess.

Author / Editor information

Frank Marcie :

Marcie Frank is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.Goldberg Jonathan :

Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Emory University. His most recent books include Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility (Duke, 2016), The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations (Fordham, 2009), and the co-edited volume This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature (Fordham, 2016).Newman Karen :

Karen Newman is Owen Walker ’33 Professor of Humanities and Professor of
Comparative Literature and English at Brown University.

Marcie Frank (External Editor)
Marcie Frank is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.

Jonathan Goldberg (External Editor)
Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Emory University.

Karen Newman (External Editor)
Karen Newman is Owen Walker ’33 Professor of Humanities and Professor of
Comparative Literature and English at Brown University.

Reviews

—Julia Reinhard Lupton, The University of California, Irvine:
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.

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.

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: World Enough and Time Jonathan Goldberg, Karen Newman and Marcie Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Materiality
1. Worldly Muck: Translating Matter in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene Brent Dawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Extreme Cary David Glimp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Marlowe’s Footstools Aaron Kunin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Part II. Sociality
4. “Who Is Speaking Here?”: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Modern Authorship, and the Contemporary University Robert Matz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. Hamlet and the Truth about Friendship James Kuzner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. “Racked . . . to the Uttermost”: The Verges of Love and Subjecthood in The Merchant of Venice Lara Bovilsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7. Cities of the Stranger Meredith Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Part III. Universality
8. What It Feels Like to Be a Body: Humoralism, Cognitivism, and the Sociological Horizon of Early Modern Religion Daniel Juan Gil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
9. Woman as World: The Female Microcosm / Macrocosm in Shakespeare and Donne Lynn Maxwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
10. The Nether Lands of Chouboli’s Dastan Madhavi Menon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Marlowe; materiality; Renaissance Literature; sexuality; Shakespeare; sovereignty; Worlds

eBook

Published: April 1, 2016
ISBN: 9780823270316