 | This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Material culture in literature; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century; These essays investigate the materiality of the world in Spenser, Cary and Marlowe; its sociability, sexuality and sovereignty in Shakespeare; and the universality of spirit, gender and empire in Vaughan, Donne and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rastanjani princess. Frank Marcie : Marcie Frank is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.Goldberg Jonathan : Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Emory University. His most recent books include Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility (Duke, 2016), The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations (Fordham, 2009), and the co-edited volume This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature (Fordham, 2016).Newman Karen : Karen Newman is Owen Walker '33 Professor of Humanities and Professor of Marcie Frank (External Editor) |
