Natural and artificial bodies in early modern England

• Verfasst von: Snider, Alvin [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Natural and artificial bodies in early modern England
• Titelzusatz: literature, natural philosophy, objects
• Verf.angabe: Alvin Snider
• Verlagsort: New York ; London
• Verlag: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2025
• Umfang: ix, 215 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
• ISBN: 978-1-138-94987-4
• ISBN: 978-1-032-91133-5
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Snider, Alvin Martin, 1954-: Natural and artificial bodies in early modern England. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2025 |(DLC)2024032720
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Snider, Alvin: Natural and artificial bodies in early modern England. - New York : Routledge, 2025. - 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 215 Seiten)
• Sach-SW: Literary criticism
• K10plus-PPN: 1903807808

Abstract

"This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, exploring how the literature of the period intersected with changing understandings of the conceptual structure of matter, and how human beings might reconfigure their place in a web of non-human relations. Focusing on texts that cross the frontier between literature and science, Snider recovers the material and body worlds of seventeenth-century culture as treated in poetry, natural philosophy, medical treatises, comedy, and prose fiction. He shows how a range of writers understood and theorized "matter," "bodies," and "spirits" as characters in complex and sometimes bizarre scenarios involving human relationships to the phenomenal world. The logic that made matter subject to uniform theorizing facilitated a crossing of boundaries between the human and nonhuman and became a persistent figure of explanation at the time when distinctions between the natural and the artificial were undergoing reformulation"--