Introduction Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan and Peter Stallybrass;
Part I. Priority of Objects: 1. The ideology of superfluous things: King
Lear as period piece Margreta de Grazia; 2. Rude mechanicals Patricia
Parker; 3. Spenser's domestic domain: poetry property and the Early Modern
subject Louis A. Montrose; Part II. Materialisations: 4. Gendering the
Crown Stephen Orgel; 5. The unauthored 1539 volume in which is printed the
Hecatomphile, The Flowers of French Poetry and Other Soothing Things Nancy
J. Vickers; 6. Dematerialisations: textile and textual properties in Ovid,
Sandys, and Spenser Ann Rosalind Jones; Part III. Appropriations: 7.
Freedom service and the trade in slaves: the problem of labour in Paradise
Lost Maureen Quilligan; 8. Feathers and flies: Aphra Behn and the
seventeenth-century trade in exotica Margaret W. Ferguson; 9. Unlearning
the Aztec Cantares (Preliminaries to a postcolonial history) Gary
Tomlinson; Part IV. Fetishisms: 10. Worn worlds: clothes and identity on
the Renaissance stage Peter Stallybrass; 11. The Countess of Pembroke's
literal translation Jonathan Goldberg; 12. Remnants of the sacred in early
modern England Stephen Greenblatt; Part V. Objections: 13. The insincerity
of women Marjorie Garber; 14. Desire is death Jonathan Dollimore; Index.
