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Renaissance Personhood: Materiality, Taxonomy, Process

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Unfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom.

Author(s): Kevin Curran
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2019

Language: English

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chapter 1 What Was Personhood?
Part I Materialities of Personhood: Chairs, Machines, Doors
Chapter 2 Daughters, Chairs, and Liberty in Margaret Cavendish’s The Religious
Chapter 3 The Inner Lives of Renaissance Machines
Chapter 4 Two Doors: Personhood and Housebreaking in Semayne’s Case and The Comedy of Errors
Part II Taxonomies of Personhood: Status, Species, Race
Chapter 5 Should (Bleeding) Trees Have Standing?
Chapter 6 Aping Personhood
Chapter 7 Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest
Part III Processes of Personhood: Eating, Lusting, Mapping
Chapter 8 Liquid Macbeth
Chapter 9 Things in Action: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129, Macbeth, and Levinas on Shame
Chapter 10 Edward Herbert’s Cosmopolitan State
Index