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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Karen Raber (University of Mississippi) , Monica Mattfeld (Associate Professor, University of Northern British Columbia)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Volume: 11 Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 25.40cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780271078359ISBN 10: 0271078359 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 10 December 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Introduction Karen Raber and Monica Mattfeld 1 Animals at the Table: Performing Meat in Early Modern England and Europe Karen Raber 2 Intra-Active Performativity: Rethinking the Early Modern Equestrian Portrait Pia F. Cuneo 3 Past Performances: Gleanings from the Archives About Early Modern Equine Athletic Performance Richard Nash 4 I See Them Galloping! : War, Affect, and Performing Horses in Matthew Lewis's Timour the Tartar Monica Mattfeld 5 Peaceable Kingdom: The Place of the Dog at the Nativity Scene Rob Wakeman 6 Performing Pain: The Suffering Animal in Early Modern Experiment Sarah E. Parker 7 Circus Minimus: The Early Modern Theater of Insects Jessica Wolfe 8 Shakespeare's Insect Theater: Fairy Lore as Elizabethan Folk Entomology Todd Andrew Borlik 9 Miss Mazeppa and the Horse with No Name Kari Weil 10 Horses Queer the Stage and Society of Shenandoah Kim Marra Bibliography List of Contributors IndexReviewsTen terrific essays in animal studies from the perspective of performance. --Henry S. Turner, SEL: Studies in English Literature This superb collection brings together leading scholars and historians to explore cutting-edge questions surrounding animal agency and performativity. Employing theoretical frameworks ranging from animal studies to the new materialisms, these essays demonstrate that the varied and various sites of animal performance are among the most fecund places from which to think about relations between humanity and animality. --Matthew Calarco, author of Thinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction This superb collection brings together leading scholars and historians to explore cutting-edge questions surrounding animal agency and performativity. Employing theoretical frameworks ranging from animal studies to the new materialisms, these essays demonstrate that the varied and various sites of animal performance are among the most fecund places from which to think about relations between humanity and animality. -Matthew Calarco, author of Thinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction Author InformationKaren Raber is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. Her most recent book is Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture. Monica Mattfeld is Assistant Professor of English Literature and History at the University of Northern British Columbia and the author of Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship, also published by Penn State University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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