{"product_id":"intricate-movements","title":"Intricate Movements","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenaissance humanism takes as one of its subjects for inquiry the category of the human itself. As \u003ci\u003eIntricate Movements: Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser\u003c\/i\u003e shows, late sixteenth-century English poets found some remarkably radical ways to interrogate and redefine the status of humans. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recent vogue for posthumanist theory encourages a view of non-human objects and animals in Renaissance literature as pathways to essentially anti-humanist thought. On the contrary, this book argues that Sidney, Spenser, and their contemporaries employ animals, earth, buildings, and fictions as analogies employed toward a better understanding of what makes humans a special category, both ontologically and ethically. Horses and riders are studied by Sidney as a way to understand readers and writers; the 1580 Dover Straits Earthquake provides Spenser and Gabriel Harvey an opportunity to explore human emotion; liturgical spaces are represented by Sidney and Spenser in order to reassess human community; and fictional persons are interrogated by Spenser as models for human interpersonal epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume seeks to return critical assessments of the period's engagement with the non-human back to human concerns. Focusing on several early modern analogies between human and non-human entities, \u003ci\u003eIntricate Movements\u003c\/i\u003e argues Sidney's and Spenser's thinking about the human is both radically experimental and, ultimately, humane.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54247391920472,"sku":"9781032093611","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032093611_9885c90e-2f67-4537-8a34-001133c30a86.jpg?v=1777795262","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/intricate-movements","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}