Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature

Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature
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Total Pages : 231
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Book Synopsis Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature by : Lynn M. Maxwell

Download or read book Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature written by Lynn M. Maxwell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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