postmedieval 4.4: Premodern Flesh

Edited by Holly Crocker and Kathryn Schwarz 

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

In the Flesh (Holly Crocker [University of South Carolina])

Melting Flesh, Living Words (Jay Zysk [University of South Florida])

The Temporal Excesses of Dead Flesh (Cynthia Turner Camp [University of Georgia])

Carnival in The Merchant of Venice (Jonathan Goldberg [Emory University])

The Curious Pleasures of the Heroic Corpse (Kathryn Schwarz [Vanderbilt University])

Scattered Remains and Paper Bodies: Margaret Cavendish and the Siege of Colchester (Frances E. Dolan [University of California, Davis])

Fleshing out the text: The Transcendent Manuscript in the Digital Age (Elaine Treharne [Stanford University])

Spirited Flesh: The Animation and Hybridization of Flesh in the Early Modern Imaginary (Emily L. King [Vanderbilt University])

Hi Mho Jhi Kudd: Thomas Stephens’s Translated Flesh, or, Coconuts in Goa (Jonathan Gil Harris [Ashoka University])