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Contagious Animality: Species, Disease, And Metaphor In Early Modern Literature And Culture, Jeremy Cornelius Jan 2023

Contagious Animality: Species, Disease, And Metaphor In Early Modern Literature And Culture, Jeremy Cornelius

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In my dissertation, Contagious Animality: Species, Disease, and Metaphor in Early Modern Literature and Culture, I close read examples of Renaissance drama alongside their contemporary cultural texts to examine anxieties around social differences as constructed and mediated through what I call “contagious animality” in early modern English culture. Animal metaphors circulated anxieties around social differences on the early modern cultural stage in English drama where animality elicits uncertainties about identitarian constructions of difference. In this vein, I close read formal elements and their interactions with early modern culture to argue that animal metaphors transmit modes of speciating difference in …


Slides On Thomas More's Warning To Readers, Travis Curtright Jan 2023

Slides On Thomas More's Warning To Readers, Travis Curtright

Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers

Slides on Thomas More's Warning to Readers, from A Treatise on the Passion (1534)


History Of The Book: Arthurian Books And The (Counter-) Reformation, Blaire Zeiders Jan 2023

History Of The Book: Arthurian Books And The (Counter-) Reformation, Blaire Zeiders

Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers

Syllabus for book history-oriented senior-level course on representations of King Arthur in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.


Student Handout: Early Modern Readers And Thomas More’S Treatise On The Passion, Travis Curtright Jan 2023

Student Handout: Early Modern Readers And Thomas More’S Treatise On The Passion, Travis Curtright

Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers

Lesson Plan and Handout for Thomas More's Warning to Readers, from his Treatise on the Passion


Lesson Plan: 16th-Century Books Using Anglo-Saxon Type, Rachel Roberts Jan 2023

Lesson Plan: 16th-Century Books Using Anglo-Saxon Type, Rachel Roberts

Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers

Lesson plan for book history / literature course


Towards A Revised Taxonomy Of Markings In 16th-Century English Bibles, Jeremy Specland Jan 2023

Towards A Revised Taxonomy Of Markings In 16th-Century English Bibles, Jeremy Specland

Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers

overview of hand-written annotations in early printed English Bibles


Early-Stuart Funeral Elegies From Manuscript, James Doelman Jan 2023

Early-Stuart Funeral Elegies From Manuscript, James Doelman

Brescia School of Humanities Publications

This document is a collection of English funeral elegies from the years 1603 to 1640, which survive in manuscript but were not published, either in their own time or more recently. It served as the basis for James Doelman, The Daring Muse of the Early Stuart Funeral Elegy (Manchester University Press, 2021).


Psalm Reception History Assignment, For Early British Literature Survey Or Studies In Renaissance Literature Courses, Daniel Knapper Jan 2023

Psalm Reception History Assignment, For Early British Literature Survey Or Studies In Renaissance Literature Courses, Daniel Knapper

Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers

Psalm Reception History Assignment, For Early British Literature Survey or Studies in Renaissance Literature courses


Early Modern Chronicle Readers: Authority And Discourse, Shaun Stiemsma Jan 2023

Early Modern Chronicle Readers: Authority And Discourse, Shaun Stiemsma

Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers

Report of research findings on early readers of 16th century English chronicles.


200-Level Assignment Series: Book History Methods In An Introductory-Level English Literature Course, Simone Waller Jan 2023

200-Level Assignment Series: Book History Methods In An Introductory-Level English Literature Course, Simone Waller

Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers

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