This Distracted Globe
Marcie Frank, Jonathan Goldberg, and Karen Newman
Abstract
Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach, including historicism. 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 ... More
Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach, including historicism. 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.
Keywords:
bodies,
cosmos,
desire,
early modern literature,
materiality/matter,
Shakespeare,
sexuality,
theory,
universality,
worlds/worldmaking
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780823270286 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: September 2016 |
DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823270286.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Marcie Frank, editor
Concordia University
Jonathan Goldberg, editor
Emory University
Karen Newman, editor
Brown University
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