Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture (Paperback, New)

This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Release date:	March 1996
First published:	1996
Editors:	Margreta De Grazia • Maureen Quilligan • Peter Stallybrass
Dimensions:	231 x 154 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	420
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-45589-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	0-521-45589-8
Barcode:	9780521455893

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