Dynamic Matter by Jennifer Linhart Wood
Investigates the life histories of Renaissance objects as they experience transformations, and demonstrates these objects' dynamic potential to transform their environments and others as they journey through time and space.“. . the volume is thought-provoking with a considerable thematic scope that deepens the conversation on material studies of early modern objects, texts, and ideas, including the notion of matter.”
—Dijana O. Apostolski Renaissance and Reformation
“The essays collected in Dynamic Matter enact a series of dazzling revelations. They range across the literary and the visual arts, confessional difference, and forms of entertainment that are both public and more personal; taken together, they reinvigorate the conversation about objects and subjects (and objects as subjects) in the Renaissance.”
—Vin Nardizzi, author of Wooden Os: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees
“Dynamic Matter furthers the scholarly conversation in the cultural “life histories” of early modern things by turning towards the transformative power of their unexpected, untimely, and mobile networks. A valuable contribution to many conversations, this smartly theorized and tightly organized volume is thought-provoking and original, capacious and accessible, and at many points even exciting to read. This book will quickly become an essential resource for the study of Renaissance material culture.”
—Wendy Beth Hyman, author of Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry
Jennifer Linhart Wood teaches at George Mason University and serves on the editorial team for Shakespeare Quarterly at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She is the author of Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel: Uncanny Vibrations in the English Archive, winner of the 2021 Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society’s David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271092539 |
| ISBN 10 | 027109253X |
| Title | Dynamic Matter |
| Author | Jennifer Linhart Wood |
| Series | Cultural Inquiries In English Literature 1400-1700 Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2022-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 290 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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