Rachel Eisendrath Knihy

Introduction -- Subjectivity and the antiquarian object: Petrarch among the ruins of Rome -- Here comes objectivity: Spenser's 1590 the Faerie Queene, book 3 -- Playing with things: reification in Marlowe's Hero and Leander -- Feeling like a fragment: Shakespeare's the Rape of Lucrece -- Coda: make me not object

"Rachel Eisendrath has written a personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading. She specializes in English Renaissance poetry. Her book, Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis (University of Chicago Press, 2018), was a co-winner of the Elizabeth Dietz Award for the best publication in early modern studies."-- Provided by publisher