Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives

Introduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives

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Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture

Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species distinctions. The material conditions of the early modern world brought humans and animals into complex interspecies relationships that have not been fully accounted for in critical readings of the period\u27s philosophical, scientific, or literary representations of animals. Where such prior readings have focused on the role of reason in debates about human exceptionalism, this book turns instead to a series of cultural sites in which we find animal and human bodies sharing environments, mutually transforming and defining one another\u27s lives. To uncover the animal body\u27s role in anatomy, eroticism, architecture, labor, and consumption, Karen Raber analyzes canonical works including More\u27s Utopia, Shakespeare\u27s Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, and Sidney\u27s poetry, situating them among readings of human and equine anatomical texts, medical recipes, theories of architecture and urban design, husbandry manuals, and horsemanship treatises. Raber reconsiders interactions between environment, body, and consciousness that we find in early modern human-animal relations. Scholars of the Renaissance period recognized animals\u27 fundamental role in fashioning what we call culture, she demonstrates, providing historical narratives about embodiment and the cultural constructions of species difference that are often overlooked in ecocritical and posthumanist theory that attempts to address the question of the animal.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/1189/thumbnail.jp