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.
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- THIS DISTRACTED GLOBE
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- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction: World Enough and Time
- Part I. MATERIALITY
- 1. Worldly Muck: Translating Matter in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene
- 2. Extreme Cary
- 3. Marlowe’s Footstools
- Part II. SOCIALITY
- 4. “Who Is Speaking Here?”: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Modern Authorship, and the Contemporary University
- 5. Hamlet and the Truth about Friendship
- 6. “Racked . . . to the Uttermost”: The Verges of Love and Subjecthood in The Merchant of Venice
- 7. Cities of the Stranger
- Part III. UNIVERSALITY
- 8. What It Feels Like to Be a Body: Humoralism, Cognitivism, and the Sociological Horizon of Early Modern Religion
- 9. Woman as World: The Female Microcosm / Macrocosm in Shakespeare and Donne
- 10. The Nether Lands of Chouboli’s Dastan
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Index
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