Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature: Wax Works by Maxwell, Lynn M.
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Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature: Wax Works by Maxwell, Lynn M.

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

Palgrave MacMillan
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Description

This book explores the role of wax as an important conceptual material used to work out the nature and limits of the early modern human. By surveying the use of wax in early modern cultural spaces such as the stage and the artist's studio and in literary and philosophical texts, including those by William Shakespeare, John Donne, René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, and Edmund Spenser, this book shows that wax is a flexible material employed to define, explore, and problematize a wide variety of early modern relations including the relationship of man and God, man and woman, mind and the world, and man and machine.



Author: Lynn M. Maxwell
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/31/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9783030169312
ISBN10: 3030169316
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Modern | General
- Literary Criticism | Drama
- Drama | Anthologies (multiple authors)

About the Author

Lynn M. Maxwell is Assistant Professor of English at Spelman College, USA, where she teaches courses in early modern literature and Shakespeare. Her work has been previously published in Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts and The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.