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Renaissance personhood : materiality, taxonomy, process / edited by Kevin Curran. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. What Was Personhood?, Kevin Curran -- Part I. Materialities of Personhood: Chairs, Machines, Doors -- 2. Daughters, Chairs, and Liberty in Margaret Cavendish's The Religious, Stephanie Elsky -- 3. The Inner Lives of Renaissance Machines, Wendy Beth Hyman -- 4. Two Doors: Personhood and Housebreaking in Semayne's Case and The Comedy of Errors, Colby Gordon -- Part II. Taxonomies of Personhood: Status, Species, Race -- 5. Should (Bleeding) Trees Have Standing?, Joseph Campana -- 6. Aping Personhood, Holly Dugan -- 7. Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest, Amanda Bailey -- Part III. Processes of Personhood: Eating, Lusting, Mapping -- 8. Liquid Macbeth, David B. Goldstein -- 9. Things in Action: Shakespeare's Sonnet 129, Macbeth, and Levinas on Shame, John Michael Archer -- 10. Edward Herbert's Cosmopolitan State, Gregory Kneidel

ISBN: 9781474448109 (electronic bk.) 1474448100 (electronic bk.)

Source: 22573/ctvsrwpv9 JSTOR

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1500-1699

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Individuality--History.
Philosophy, Renaissance.
Material culture--History--Europe--16th century.
Material culture--History--Europe--17th century.
Renaissance.
Individualité--Histoire.
Philosophie de la Renaissance.
Culture matérielle--Histoire--Europe--16e siècle.
Culture matérielle--Histoire--Europe--17e siècle.
Renaissance.
Renaissance.
Individuality.
Material culture.
Philosophy, Renaissance.
Renaissance.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Europe.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History.

LC Class. No.: BF697

Dewey Class. No.: 155.2 306.094