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Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature - Wax Works

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This book explores the role of wax as an important conceptual material used to work out the nature and limits of the early modern human. By surveying the use of wax in early modern cultural spaces such as the stage and the artist's studio and in literary and philosophical texts, including those by William Shakespeare, John Donne, René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, and Edmund Spenser, this book shows that wax is a flexible material employed to define, explore, and problematize a wide variety of early modern relations including the relationship of man and God, man and woman, mind and the world, and man and machine. 

List of contents


1. Introduction: Wax Concepts.- 2. Wax Seals: Gendered Relations in Shakespeare.- 3. Wax Minds: Writing Subjectivity and Agency in Hamlet and The Atheist's Tragedy.- 4. Wax Patterning: Cavendish and the Physics of Wax.- 5. Wax Arts: Projects of Transformation in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Donne's Sappho to Philaenis.- 6.Wax Hybrids: Re-thinking Subjects and Objects in Ovid, Paré, Descartes, and Spenser.- 7. Epilogue: A Figure of Wax.

About the author










Lynn M. Maxwell is Assistant Professor of English at Spelman College, USA, where she teaches courses in early modern literature and Shakespeare. Her work has been previously published in Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts and The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.


Product details

Authors Lynn M Maxwell, Lynn M. Maxwell
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.08.2020
 
EAN 9783030169343
ISBN 978-3-0-3016934-3
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 148 mm x 12 mm x 210 mm
Illustrations VIII, 224 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Series Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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