Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture: 8 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 8) - Softcover

 
9780521455893: Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture: 8 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 8)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521455898 ISBN 13: 9780521455893
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521455898
ISBN 13 
9780521455893
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
420
Editor
De Grazia Margreta