Renaissance Animal Things

Fudge, Erica (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.

    Author(s):Fudge, Erica ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6903-7205
    Item type:Book Section
    ID code:44351
    Keywords: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:20 Oct 2019 02:27
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44351
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