Overview
- Contributes to the areas of object studies and material studies
- Examines posthumanism in early modern texts
- Engages examples from art, literature, philosophy, and science
Part of the book series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 (EMCSS)
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About this book
This book explores the role of wax as an important conceptual material used to work out the nature and limits of the early modern human. By surveying the use of wax in early modern cultural spaces such as the stage and the artist’s studio and in literary and philosophical texts, including those by William Shakespeare, John Donne, René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, and Edmund Spenser, this book shows that wax is a flexible material employed to define, explore, and problematize a wide variety of early modern relations including the relationship of man and God, man and woman, mind and the world, and man and machine.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lynn M. Maxwell is Assistant Professor of English at Spelman College, USA, where she teaches courses in early modern literature and Shakespeare. Her work has been previously published in Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts and The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature
Book Subtitle: Wax Works
Authors: Lynn M. Maxwell
Series Title: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16932-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16931-2Published: 31 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16934-3Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16932-9Published: 21 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-5897
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5900
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 224
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History, Drama