Wax impressions, figures, and forms in early modern literature : wax works / Lynn M. Maxwell.
2019
PR421 .M39 2019
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Title
Wax impressions, figures, and forms in early modern literature : wax works / Lynn M. Maxwell.
Author
Maxwell, Lynn M., author.
ISBN
9783030169329 (electronic book)
3030169324 (electronic book)
9783030169312
3030169324 (electronic book)
9783030169312
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan US, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (231 pages).
Call Number
PR421 .M39 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9003
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 21, 2019).
Series
Early modern cultural studies.
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