Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature: Wax Works

By Lynn M Maxwell

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Wax Concepts

1.1 Conceiving Wax

1.2 Producing Wax

1.3 Using Wax

1.4 Thinking Wax

1.5 Working Wax

2. Wax Seals: Gendered Relations in Shakespeare

2.1 Writing Lucrece

2.2 Writing Maria / Writing Olivia

2.3 Writing Gender

3. Wax Minds: Writing Subjectivity and Agency in Hamlet and The Atheist's Tragedy

3.1 Learning Wax Virtues

3.2 Writing Hamlet's Tables

3.3 Imprinting Charlemont

4. Wax Patterning: Cavendish and the Physics of Wax

4.1 Thinking Patterns and Impressions in Philosophical Letters

4.2 Waxing Social and Political

4.3 Patterning Worlds and Relations in The Blazing World

5.Wax Arts: Projects of Transformation in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Donne's Sappho to Philaenis

5.1 Deforming wax in The Duchess of Malfi

5.2 Inscribing wax in Sappho to Philaenis

6. Wax Hybrids: Re-Thinking Subjects and Objects in Ovid, Par?, Descartes, and Spenser

6.1 Dreaming Prosthetics

6.2 Animating Allegories

7. Epilogue: A Figure of Wax

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030169340
• ISBN13: 9783030169343
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"