Intricate Movements: Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Routledge
ISBN13:
9780367194529
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Renaissance humanism takes as one of its subjects for inquiry the category of the human itself. As Intricate Movements: Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spensershows, late sixteenth-century English poets found some remarkably radical ways to interrogate and redefine the status of humans. The recent vogue for posthumanist theory encourages a view of non-human objects and animals in Renaissance literature as pathways to essentially anti-humanist thought. On the contrary, this book argues that Sidney, Spenser, and their contemporaries employ animals, earth, buildings, and fictions as analogies employed toward a better understanding of what makes humans a special category, both ontologically and ethically. Horses and riders are studied by Sidney as a way to understand readers and writers; the 1580 Dover Straits Earthquake provides Spenser and Gabriel Harvey an opportunity to explore human emotion; liturgical spaces are represented by Sidney and Spenser in order to reassess human community; and fictional persons are interrogated by Spenser as models for human interpersonal epistemology. This volume seeks to return critical assessments of the period's engagement with the non-human back to human concerns. Focusing on several early modern analogies between human and non-human entities, Intricate Movementsargues Sidney's and Spenser's thinking about the human is both radically experimental and, ultimately, humane. r to reassess human community; and fictional persons are interrogated by Spenser as models for human interpersonal epistemology. This volume seeks to return critical assessments of the period's engagement with the non-human back to human concerns. Focusing on several early modern analogies between human and non-human entities, Intricate Movementsargues Sidney's and Spenser's thinking about the human is both radically experimental and, ultimately, humane.
- | Author: Brad Davin Tuggle
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Mar 07, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 208 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 036719452X
- | ISBN-13: 9780367194529
- Author:
- Brad Davin Tuggle
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Mar 07, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 208 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 036719452X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780367194529