Poetic Science: Wonder And The Seas Of Cognition In Bacon And Pericles, Jean E. Feerick
Dec 2016
Poetic Science: Wonder And The Seas Of Cognition In Bacon And Pericles, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated. These specially-commissioned essays from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among …
Shakespeare And Classical Cosmology, Jean E. Feerick
Dec 2016
Shakespeare And Classical Cosmology, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; they also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is connected with whatever qualities still make Shakespeare, himself, a classic (arguably the classic) of modern world literature and drama. The first sense of the classic which the volume addresses is the classical culture of Latin and Greek reading, translation, and imitation. …
The Imperial Graft: Horticulture, Hybridity, And The Art Of Mingling Races In Henry V And Cymbeline, Jean E. Feerick
Dec 2015
The Imperial Graft: Horticulture, Hybridity, And The Art Of Mingling Races In Henry V And Cymbeline, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that …
“Rude Uncivill Blood”: The Pastoral Challenge To Hereditary Race In Fletcher And Milton, Jean E. Feerick
Dec 2014
“Rude Uncivill Blood”: The Pastoral Challenge To Hereditary Race In Fletcher And Milton, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.
Economies Of Nature In Shaskespeare, Jean E. Feerick
Dec 2010
Economies Of Nature In Shaskespeare, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
The article explores the themes of nature and ecology in the plays of English author William Shakespeare. The author reflects on the dynamic between the human and nonhuman from the perspective of premodern society. Topics discussed include the homologous relationship between natural and human forms in Shakespeare's time, scenes of incorporation and re-assimilation in the play "Titus Andronicus," and cyclical exchanges between human and earth. The author also evaluates theories on nature by author Bruno Latour in books such as "We Have Never Been Modern."
Strangers In Blood: Relocating Race In The Renaissance, Jean E. Feerick
Dec 2009
Strangers In Blood: Relocating Race In The Renaissance, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals. Arguing that, in early modern discourse, the concept of race was primarily linked with notions of bloodline, lineage, and genealogy rather than with skin colour and ethnicity, Jean E. Feerick establishes that the characterization of settler communities as subject to degenerative decline constituted a massive challenge to the fixed system of blood that had hitherto underpinned the English social hierarchy.
Considering contexts as diverse as Ireland, Virginia, and the West Indies, Strangers in Blood …
Botanical Shakespeares: The Racial Logic Of Plant Life In Titus Andronicus, Jean E. Feerick
Feb 2009
Botanical Shakespeares: The Racial Logic Of Plant Life In Titus Andronicus, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
The early modern epistemic overlap between plant and person, Feerick’s article demonstrates, can expand critical work on early modern race both in and beyond Shakespearean drama. It centers upon an analysis of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, a play that brings plant bodies and human bodies into dizzying dramatic collision. In contrast to critics of the Enlightenment who have argued that the drive to classify plants into phyla and species helped to shape epistemologies of human difference, both gendered and racialized, this article works backward, examining how the premodern logic of botany helped to constitute a different racial idiom. During this …
“‘Divided In Soyle’: Plantation And Degeneracy In ‘The Tempest’ And ‘The Sea Voyage, Jean E. Feerick
Dec 2005
“‘Divided In Soyle’: Plantation And Degeneracy In ‘The Tempest’ And ‘The Sea Voyage, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
No abstract provided.
A "Nation. . . Now Degenerate": Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Nova Britannia, And The Role Of Diet And Climate In Reproducing Races, Jean E. Feerick
Dec 2002
A "Nation. . . Now Degenerate": Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Nova Britannia, And The Role Of Diet And Climate In Reproducing Races, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
No abstract provided.
Spenser, Race, And Ire-Land, Jean E. Feerick
Dec 2001
Spenser, Race, And Ire-Land, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
No abstract provided.
