Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures

by Erica Fudge

Animals, as L vi-Strauss wrote, are good to think with. This collection addresses and reassesses the variety of ways in which animals were used and thought about in Renaissance culture, challenging contemporary as well as historic views of the boundaries and hierarchies humans presume the natural world to contain.

Taking as its starting point the popularity of speaking animals in sixteenth-century literature and ending with the decline of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252028805
• ISBN13: 9780252028809
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"