{"product_id":"lesser-living-creatures-of-the-renaissance-volume-1-insects-hardcover","title":"Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance: Volume 1, Insects - 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. Designed for the classroom, the book comprises two volumes--\u003ci\u003eInsects\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConcepts\u003c\/i\u003e--that can be used together or independently. Each addresses the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern natural history and provides 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 1, \u003ci\u003eInsects\u003c\/i\u003e, examines how insects burrowed into the literal and symbolic economies of the era. The contributors consider diminutive creatures--such as bees and beetles, flies and fleas, silkworms and spiders--and their depictions in plays, poetry, fables, natural histories, and more. In doing so, 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 Chris Barrett, Roya Biggie, Bruce Boehrer, Gary Bouchard, Dan Brayton, Eric Brown, Mary Baine Campbell, Perry Guevara, Shannon Kelley, Emily King, Karen Raber, Kathryn Vomero Santos, Donovan Sherman, and Steven Swarbrick.\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 294\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 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":51782825115936,"sku":"9780271094465","price":197.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c21255aca7e8d8d8a2d45968680fd8b2.webp?v=1780577468","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lesser-living-creatures-of-the-renaissance-volume-1-insects-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}