The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies, Volume II

Julian Yates, University of Delaware, USA Dan Mills, Clayton State University, USA Joseph Campana, Rice University, USA Ken Hiltner, University of California, USA Edward Geisweidt, University of New Haven, USA Douglas Trevor, University of Michigan, USA Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, USA Matthew J. Smith, Azusa Pacific University, USA James A. Knapp, Loyola University of Chicago, USA Christopher Stokes, National University of Ireland, Ireland James Kuzner, Brown University, USA Kenneth Graham, University of Waterloo, Canada Drew Daniel, The Johns Hopkins University, USA

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: POSTHUMANISM 1. It's (for) you; or, the tele-t/r/opical post-human; Julian Yates 2. Margaret Cavendish and the Creation, Publishing, and Empowering of Subjectivity in the Blazing World; Dan Mills 3. The Bee and the Sovereign (II): Segments, Swarms, and the Early Modern Multitude, Joseph Campana PART II: ECOCRITICISM 4. Early Modern Ecocriticism; Ken Hiltner 5. Horticulture of the Head: The Vegetable Life of Hair in Early Modern English Thought; Edward Geisweidt 6. The Private Lives of Trees and Flowers; Douglas Trevor PART III: HISTORICAL PHENOMENOLOGY 7. Shakespearean Softscapes: Hospitality, Phenomenology, Design; Julia Reinhard Lupton 8. Describing the Sense of Confession in Hamlet; Matthew J. Smith 9. '''Tis insensible, then?': Language and Action in 1 Henry IV'; James A. Knapp 10. ''We Prove Mysterious by This Love': John Donne and the Intimacy of Flesh; Christopher Stokes PART IV: HISTORICISM NOW 11. Milton, Habermas, and the Dynamics of Debate; James Kuzner 12. 'Copious Measures': The Sidney Psalms and the Meaning of Abundance; Kenneth Graham 13. The Empedoclean Renaissance; Drew Daniel Index