Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance: Volume 1, Insects

Contents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction Creatures\n1 Silkworm Thomas Moffett, Silkworm Laureate\n2 Ants Go to the Pismire\n3 Flea Annihilating the Copulative Conceit: John Donne’s Conversion of the “son of dust” into Uncertain Sacrilege\n4 Fly Of Flyes: The Insect Mind of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus\n5 Gnat Th e Clamor of Things: Moffett’s Gnats, Spenser’s Complaints\n6 Maggot Mutable Maggots: Corruption, Generation, and Literary Legacy\n7 Bee “Some say the bee stings”: Toward an Apian Poetics\n8 Wasp What Is It Like to Be Like a Wasp?\n9 Butterflies and Moths Volatile Creatures and Elaborate Work\n10 Grasshopper and Locust Antimonarchal Locusts: Translating the Grasshopper in the Aftermath of the English Civil Wars\n11 Beetle Sycorax’s Beetles: Legacies of Science, the Occult, and Blackness\n12 Spider Th e Renaissance of Spiders: Ambivalence, Beauty, Terror, Art\n13 Water Bugs Bugs Aquatic: Water Striders from Moffett to Marine Science\n14 Worms Worms of Conscience\n15 Scorpions Flame of Fire Beaten: Scorpions in and out of Mind\nEpilogue Creatures\nContributors\nIndex