Overview
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Erica Fudge
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School of Historical and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Bath Spa University College, UK
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Ruth Gilbert
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School of Cultural Studies, King Alfred’s College, Winchester, UK
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Susan Wiseman
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School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
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About this book
What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. The development of Renaissance technologies of difference such as mapping, colonialism and anatomy paradoxically also illuminated the similarities between human and non-human. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others: animals, women, native subjects, machines. It examines border creatures (hermaphrodites, wildmen and cyborgs) and border practices (science, surveying and pornography).
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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- Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, Susan Wiseman
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Back Matter
Pages 259-269
Reviews
'all [the essays] are lively and original, and offer new perspectives on a provocative and... inexhaustible subject' - Eileen Reeves, Renaissance Quarterly
'The essays...open up [a] neglected aspect of our cultural history' - David Salter, Cahiers Elizabéthains
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Historical and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Bath Spa University College, UK
Erica Fudge
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School of Cultural Studies, King Alfred’s College, Winchester, UK
Ruth Gilbert
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School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Susan Wiseman
About the editors
BRIAN CUMMINGS Lecturer in English in the School of European Studies, University of Essex
JESS EDWARDS University of North London
MARGARET HEALY Lecturer in the School of English and American Studies, University of Sussex
MICHAEL NEWTON Author and Editor
MARY PEACE co-editor with Vincent Quinn of a Textual Practice special edition entitled Luxurious Sexualities and The Body Politic in Eighteenth-Century Britain
JULIE SANDERS Reader in English, Keele University
JONATHAN SAWDAY Professor of English Studies, University of Strathclyde
STEPHEN SPEED Buckinghamshire University College
ALAN STEWART Reader in Renaissance Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London