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Renaissance beasts : of animals, humans, and other wonderful creatures

Title
Renaissance beasts : of animals, humans, and other wonderful creatures / edited by Erica Fudge.
ISBN
0252028805 (alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.
Physical Description
vi, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2004
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Unpicking the seam : talking animals and reader pleasure in early modern satire / Kathryn Perry
"Bitches and queens" : pets and perversion at the court of France's Henri III / Juliana Schiesari
Hairy on the inside : metamorphosis and civility in English werewolf texts / S.J. Wiseman
Saying nothing concerning the same : on dominion, purity, and meat in early modern England / Erica Fudge
"Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?" : Shakespeare's animations / Erica Sheen
Government by beagle : the impersonal rule of James VI and I / Alan Stewart
Reading, writing, and riding horses in early modern England : James Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) and Gervase Markham's Cavelarice (1607) / Elspeth Graham
"Can ye not tell a man from a marmoset?" : apes and others on the early modern stage / James Knowles
Pliny's literate elephant and the idea of animal language in Renaissance thought / Brian Cummings
Reading vital signs : animals and the experimental philosophy / Peter Harrison
The menagerie and the labyrinthe : animals at Versailles, 1662-1792 / Matthew Senior.
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