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The Seeds of Things - Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations (Hardcover)
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The Seeds of Things - Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations (Hardcover)
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The title of this book translates one of the many ways in which
Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De
rerum natura. In Lucretius, and in the strain of thought followed
in this study, matter is always in motion, always differing from
itself and yet always also made of the same stuff. From the pious
Lucy Hutchinson's all but complete translation of the Roman epic
poem to Margaret Cavendish's repudiation of atomism (but not of its
fundamental problematic of sameness and difference), a central
concern of this book is how a thoroughgoing materialism can be read
alongside other strains in the thought of the early modern period,
particularly Christianity. A chapter moves from Milton's monism to
his angels and their insistent corporeality. Milton's angels have
sex, and, throughout, this study emphasizes the consequences for
thinking about sexuality offered by Lucretian materialism. Sameness
of matter is not simply a question of same-sex sex, and the
relations of atoms in Cavendish and Hutchinson are replicated in
the terms in which they imagine marriages of partners who are also
their doubles. Likewise, Spenser's knights in the 1590 Faerie
Queene pursue the virtues of Holiness, Temperance, and Chastity in
quests that take the reader on a path of askesis of the kind that
Lucretius recommends and that Foucault studied in the final volumes
of his history of sexuality. Although English literature is the
book's main concern, it first contemplates relations between
Lucretian matter and Pauline flesh by way of Tintoretto's painting
The Conversion of St. Paul. Theoretical issues raised in the work
of Agamben and Badiou, among others, lead to a chapter that takes
up the role that Lucretius has played in theory, from Bergson and
Marx to Foucault and Deleuze. This study should be of concern to
students of religion, philosophy, gender, and sexuality, especially
as they impinge on questions of representation.
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