{"product_id":"lesser-living-creatures-of-the-renaissance-volume-2-concepts-hardcover","title":"Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance: Volume 2, Concepts - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith Botelho\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJoseph Campana\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eLesser Living Creatures \u003c\/i\u003eexamines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about--and with--insect and arachnid life. The conversations in this two-volume set address the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern natural history and provide new insights into the old question of what it means to be human in a world populated by beasts large and small.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 2, \u003ci\u003eConcepts\u003c\/i\u003e, explores ideas that cut across species, insect and otherwise, both building on and invigorating critical vocabularies developed over nearly two decades of early modern animal studies. The contributors explore topics such as the medical and culinary consumption of insects; extermination campaigns; the auditory and emotive effects of a swarm; insects and politics; and notions of infestation, stinging, and creeping. Throughout, they illuminate how early modern science and literature worked as intersecting systems of knowledge production about the natural world and show definitively how insect life was, and remains, intimately entangled with human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the editors, contributors to this volume include Lucinda Cole, Frances E. Dolan, Lowell Duckert, Andrew Fleck, Rebecca Laroche, Jennifer Munroe, Amy L. Tigner, Jessica Lynn Wolfe, Derek Woods, and Julian Yates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eKeith Botelho\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Earwitnesses: Rumor and Early Modern Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Campana\u003c\/strong\u003e is William Shakespeare Professor of English and Director of the Center for Environmental Studies at Rice University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor, with Scott Maisano, of \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Posthumanism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42120687419527,"sku":"9780271094489","price":179.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e122661e3e224620b4bfaa3a2921af70.webp?v=1732548737","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/lesser-living-creatures-of-the-renaissance-volume-2-concepts-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}