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 ![]() | Item type: | Book Section |
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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: | 18 Jan 2021 02:38 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44351 |
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