Intricate Movements: Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser

by Brad Tuggle

Renaissance humanism takes as one of its subjects for inquiry the category of the human itself. As Intricate Movements: Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser shows, late sixteenth-century English poets found some remarkably radical ways to interrogate and redefine the status of humans.

The recent vogue for posthumanist theory encourages a view of non-human objects and animals in Renaissance literature as pathways...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036719452X
• ISBN13: 9780367194529
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"