Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from
early modern England in order to understand how people in that era
thought about-and with-insect and arachnid life. Designed for the
classroom, the book comprises two volumes-Insects and Concepts-that
can be used together or independently. Each addresses the
collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early
modern natural history and provides new insights into the old
question of what it means to be human in a world populated by
beasts large and small. Volume 1, Insects, examines how insects
burrowed into the literal and symbolic economies of the era. The
contributors consider diminutive creatures-such as bees and
beetles, flies and fleas, silkworms and spiders-and their
depictions in plays, poetry, fables, natural histories, and more.
In doing so, they illuminate how early modern science and
literature worked as intersecting systems of knowledge production
about the natural world and show definitively how insect life was,
and remains, intimately entangled with human life. In addition to
the editors, contributors to this volume include Chris Barrett,
Roya Biggie, Bruce Boehrer, Gary Bouchard, Dan Brayton, Eric Brown,
Mary Baine Campbell, Perry Guevara, Shannon Kelley, Emily King,
Karen Raber, Kathryn Vomero Santos, Donovan Sherman, and Steven
Swarbrick.
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