This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature

by Jonathan Goldberg, Marcie Frank (Editor), Karen Newman

Overview

"Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essays in this collection investigate the material stuff of the world in Spenser, Cary, and Marlowe; the sociable bonds of authorship, sexuality, and sovereignty in Shakespeare and others; and the universal status of spirit, gender, and empire in the worlds of Vaughan, Donne, and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rajasthani princess. Together, these essays make the case that to address what it takes to make a world in the early modern period requires the kinds of thinking exemplified by theory."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823270286
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2016
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Marcie Frank (External Editor)
Marcie Frank is Professor of English at Concordia Universityin 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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: World Enough and Time
Jonathan Goldberg (with Karen Newman and Marcie Frank)

I. Materiality
1. Worldly Muck: Translating Matter in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene
Brent Dawson
2. Extreme Cary
David Glimp
3. Marlowe's Footstools
Aaron Kunin

II. Sociality
4. "Who Is Speaking Here?": Shakespeare's Sonnets, Modern Authorship, and the Contemporary University
Robert Matz
5. Hamlet and the Truth About Friendship
James Kuzner
6. "Racked . . . to the Uttermost": The Verges of Love and Subjecthood in The Merchant of Venice
Lara Bovilsky
7. Cities of the Stranger
Meredith Evans

III. Universality
8. What It Feels Like to Be a Body: Humoralism, Cognitivism and the Sociological Horizon of Early Modern Religion
Daniel Juan Gil
9. Woman as World: The Female Microcosm/Macrocosm in Shakespeare and Donne
Lynn Maxwell
10. The Nether Lands of Chouboli's Dastan
Madhavi Menon

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

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.

The University of California, Irvine - Julia Reinhard Lupton

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.

Renaissance Quarterly

"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." — Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine

From the Publisher

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.

Modern Philology

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.

Julia Reinhard Lupton