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

• Main Author: Maxwell, Lynn M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; Literature-History and criticism.; Drama.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Literary History.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Wax Concepts
• 2. Wax Seals: Gendered Relations in Shakespeare
• 3. Wax Minds: Writing Subjectivity and Agency in Hamlet and The Atheist's Tragedy
• 4. Wax Patterning: Cavendish and the Physics of Wax
• 5. Wax Arts: Projects of Transformation in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Donne's Sappho to Philaenis
• 6.Wax Hybrids: Re-thinking Subjects and Objects in Ovid, Paré, Descartes, and Spenser
• 7. Epilogue: A Figure of Wax.