Renaissance Animal Things
Fudge, Erica; Landes, Joan B. and Lee, Paula Young and Youngquist, Paul, eds. (2012) Renaissance Animal Things. In: Gorgeous Beasts. Pennsylvania State University Press, Philadelphia, pp. 41-56. ISBN 978-0-271-05401-8
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Abstract
This chapter uses thing theory to explore the uses of two animal things common in Renaissane culture: leather and civet. It argues that, even as the animal is dismembered and its parts used in the manufacture of commodities - gloves, perfume - those objects have a power to change the world in which they are used: that animal things are not inert, and are not simply evidence of human dominion, but are themselves active presences in culture.
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Fudge, Erica
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Landes, Joan B., Lee, Paula Young and Youngquist, PaulItem type: Book Section ID code: 44351 Dates: DateEvent28 September 2012PublishedKeywords: animal , thing theory, renaissance, Shakespeare, History, History Subjects: History General and Old World Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 18 Jul 2013 08:44 Last modified: 07 May 2021 00:59 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44351
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