Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez: An Animal Studies by John Beusterien

The Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650

During this e-book, a follow-up to his 1996 monograph Celestial Sirens, Robert Kendrick examines the cultural contexts of track in early-modern Milan. This e-book describes the church buildings and palaces that served as functionality areas in Milan, analyzes the ability buildings within the urban, discusses the devotional rites of the Milanese, and explores the connections between urban politics, city-scape, and song.

Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Artificial Slaves (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

This e-book explores the production and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by means of fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early glossy interval. starting with an research of the roots of synthetic servants, humanoids, and automata from previous instances, LaGrandeur strains how those literary representations coincide with a surging curiosity in automata and experimentation, and the way they mix with the mystical technology that preceded the empirical period.

Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez: An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain (New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies)

The learn of the construction of dogs breeds in early sleek Europe, in particular Spain, illustrates different constructs opposed to which notions of human identification have been solid. This publication is the 1st finished historical past of early sleek Spanish canines and it evaluates how of Spain’s so much celebrated and canonical cultural figures of this era, the artist Diego Velázquez and the writer Miguel de Cervantes, notably query humankind’s sixteenth-century anthropocentric self-fashioning.

Milton’s Italy: Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Connections in Seventeenth-Century England (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

This e-book joins a turning out to be development towards transnational literary stories and revives a venerable culture of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that experience lowered the overseas dimensions of his lifestyles and paintings, it generally surveys Milton’s Italianate reports, travels, poetics, politics, and spiritual convictions.