{"product_id":"pretty-creatures-michael-witmore-9780801443992","title":"Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003eChildren had surprisingly central roles in many of the public performances of the English Renaissance, whether in entertainments--civic pageants, children's theaters, Shakespearean drama--or in more grim religious and legal settings, as when children were \"possessed by demons\" or testified as witnesses in witchcraft trials. Taken together, such spectacles made repeated connections between child performers as children and the mimetic powers of fiction in general. In \u003ci\u003ePretty Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Witmore examines the ways in which children, with their proverbial capacity for spontaneous imitation and their imaginative absorption, came to exemplify the virtues and powers of fiction during this era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs much concerned with Renaissance poetics as with children's roles in public spectacles of the period, \u003ci\u003ePretty Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to bring the antics of children--and the rich commentary these antics provoked--into the mainstream of Renaissance studies, performance studies, and studies of reformation culture in England. As such, it represents an alternative history of the concept of mimesis in the period, one that is built from the ground up through reflections on the actual performances of what was arguably nature's greatest mimic: the child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Witmore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801443997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801443992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.41w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 1163","brand":"Michael Witmore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065130823935,"sku":"9780801443992","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_adc57bd7-2b5e-4502-bc29-57508e5d8e3e.jpg?v=1768673195","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pretty-creatures-michael-witmore-9780801443992","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}