Renaissance personhood : materiality, taxonomy, process / edited by Kevin Curran.

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

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