This Distracted Globe
Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature
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From Spenser’s toxic slime to Persian story theater, with way-stations that include Marlovian foot-stools, Horatian friendship, and Paracelsian ecology, this sparkling and timely collection of essays visits a dazzling range of world-making aspirations in Renaissance and early modern literature.---—Julia Reinhard Lupton, The University of California, Irvine
In essays ranging from the Faerie Queene to contemporary performances of Urdu erotic tales, from Marlowe’s footstools to cognitive theory, the essays take up the productively vexed nature of distinctions of gender and sexuality, and the porousness of the divide between matter and spirit, friend and enemy, animate and inanimate.---Renaissance Quarterly
This provocative and wide-ranging collection of essays is a tribute to Jonathan Goldberg... it is a fitting mirror and celebration of Goldberg's own influential body of scholarship.---Modern Philology
Marcie Frank (External Editor)
Marcie Frank is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.
Jonathan Goldberg (External Editor)
Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Emory University.
Karen Newman (External Editor)
Karen Newman is Owen Walker ’33 Professor of Humanities and Professor of
Comparative Literature and English at Brown University.