{"product_id":"lesser-living-creatures-of-the-keith-botelho-9780271094472","title":"Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLesser Living Creatures \u003c\/em\u003eexamines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about-and with-insect and arachnid life. Designed for the classroom, the book comprises two volumes-\u003cem\u003eInsects\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eConcepts\u003c\/em\u003e-that can be used together or independently. Each addresses the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern natural history and provides new insights into the old question of what it means to be human in a world populated by beasts large and small.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 1, \u003cem\u003eInsects\u003c\/em\u003e, examines how insects burrowed into the literal and symbolic economies of the era. The contributors consider diminutive creatures-such as bees and beetles, flies and fleas, silkworms and spiders-and their depictions in plays, poetry, fables, natural histories, and more. In doing so, they illuminate how early modern science and literature worked as intersecting systems of knowledge production about the natural world and show definitively how insect life was, and remains, intimately entangled with human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the editors, contributors to this volume include Chris Barrett, Roya Biggie, Bruce Boehrer, Gary Bouchard, Dan Brayton, Eric Brown, Mary Baine Campbell, Perry Guevara, Shannon Kelley, Emily King, Karen Raber, Kathryn Vomero Santos, Donovan Sherman, and Steven Swarbrick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Botelho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271094478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271094472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Keith Botelho","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437886615807,"sku":"9780271094472","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3be085fa-b40e-49fe-8eeb-9529e971cb57.jpg?v=1777167442","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lesser-living-creatures-of-the-keith-botelho-9780271094472","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}