The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations

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index Albanese, Denise, 243n25 Althusser, Louis, 5, 30, 57, 180, 219n42 Agamben, Giorgio, 21–22, 25, 220n10, 239n47 Arendt, Hannah, 75–77, 82, 88 atomism, 34, 36, 37, 39, 41, 43, 46, 59, 108, 126, 150 Auerbach, Erich, 171, 174 Augustine, Saint: on bodily creation, 12, 22, 77, 81, 84, 102, 199–201, 227n19, 229n22; conversion of, 26; on libido, 75, 79, 83– 84, 88, 89, 121, 199; on will, 76, 77, 199 Bachelard, Gaston, 54, 239n47 Badiou, Alain, 19, 20, 22, 218n34 Barbour, Reid, 4, 153–57 Battigelli, Anna, 137 Bellamy, Elizabeth J., 231n51 Benesch, Otto, 216n23 Bennett, Jane, 6, 51–53, 56, 58, 59, 152, 223n36 Bennett, Josephine Waters, 116 Berger, Harry, 80, 81, 97–98, 226n16 Bergson, Henri, 58, 61–62, 223n35 Berresem, Hanjo, 44, 58, 221n16 Bersani, Leo, 6, 7, 9, 105, 209, 225n14, 242n15; with Ulysse Dutoit, 8–14, 16 Boehrer, Bruce, 184–85, 187–88 Borris, Kenneth, 227n18, 228n20 Botticelli, Sandro, 16 Boyarin, Daniel, 227n18 Bracciolini, Poggio, 15, 115 263 Braider, Christopher, 215n15 Bray, Alan, 129, 130, 184, 196, 235n15, 241n11 Bredbeck, Gregory, 242n14, 243n25 Brown, Peter, 67, 227n18, 228n19 Brown, Robert D., 239n49 Bruno, Giordano, 19, 104, 115, 217n23 Bruster, Douglas, 2 Butler, Judith, 215n7 Campana, Joseph, 101, 104, 230n41 Campbell, Mary Baine, 127 Campbell, Stephen J., 14–15, 19, 215n17, 216n18 Caravaggio, 28; Conversion of St. Paul, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 24; homosexuality of, 8 Cassegrain, Guillaume, 17, 19, 21 Cassian, John, 79, 90, 228n19 Cassirer, Ernst, 113, 114–15, 118, 147 Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle : atomism of, 2, 123, 125–26, 132, 148– 52, 160, 237n31; Blazing World, 126–27, 131, 132–33, 135, 141, 143, 146, 147, 148–49; Christianity of, 2, 151, 158; Convent of Pleasure , 128, 129, 147–48; Grounds of Natural Philosophy, 144, 145, 148; intellectual relations of, 4; Life of the Duke of Newcastle, 133, 141; manuscripts of, 136, 137–40, 236n25; materialism of, 3, 125–26, 131, 135, 138, 144, 149, 169; marriage of, 3, 138, 140, 143, 164; Observations upon Experimental Philosophy , 127, 131, 135, 140, 143, 144, 145, 147, 264 Index 148, 149–51; Poems, and Fancies, 151; Philosophical and Physical Opinions, 151; Philosophical Letters, 129, 144; politics of, 123, 127, 132, 146; and same-sex relations, 130, 143, 146, 147, 164; Sociable Letters, 123, 129, 136, 137, 141, 142, 143, 144, 146; True Relation of My Birth, 133, 136, 141, 236nn23, 24 Cavendish, William, Duke of Newcastle, 22, 123 Cefalu, Paul, 245n38 Chambers, A.B., 245n37 Chaplin, Gregory, 241n8 Christianity: and body, 5, 75, 84; and selfhood , 55; and spiritual exercises, 55, 74, 120–21; and typology, 3, 21, 171, 174 Clay, Diskin, 168 Clucas, Stephen, 237n31 Conway, Anne, 146, 170 Copeland, Thomas A., 242n20 Cusanus, Nicholas, 114, 208, 232n55 Daniel, Clay, 242n20 Davidson, Arnold, 70, 118, 225n9, 233n61 Debray, Régis, 219n40 Deleuze, Gilles: Bergsonism, 62; Fold, 28, 159, 161, 170, 175, 176, 224n37; ‘‘Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy,’’ 32, 36–40, 157, 169, 240n51 Dempsey, Charles, 16, 216n17 De rerum natura: aleatory principle in, 3, 46, 150; atoms, names for, in: 3, 13, 37, 47– 48, 107, 124–25, 159, 171, 175; clinamen in, 34, 46, 59, 60, 237n31; Epicurus in, 46, 68, 176; ethics of, 53–54, 106; life in, 41, 45, 168; matter in, 7, 12–14, 203; plague in, 40; recovery of manuscript of, 15, 115; sex in, 45, 168, 170, 201; simulacra in: 33, 38, 51, 138, 158; species in, 138, 158, 167; Venus in, 3, 45, 106, 111, 170, 201. See also atomism, element, Lucretius Derrida, Jacques, 49–51 Detlefsen, Karen, 126, 134–35, 145, 149, 151 Diodati, Charles, 182, 183, 184, 188, 189 Diogenes Laertius, 16, 32 Dutoit, Ulysse. See Bersani, Leo: with Ulysse Dutoit element, 13, 48, 124–25, 175–76, 203 Elias, Norbert, 68 Empson, William, 243n25 Epicureanism, 12, 13, 20, 26, 32, 176; and atomism , 36, 37, 59, 115; and life-practices, 42, 52, 54–56, 61; and pleasure, 34–35, 51; and sensation, 33. See also atomism, voluptas Epicurus, 16, 26, 32, 35, 59, 150 Erasmus, Desiderius, 134, 228n19 Esolen, Anthony, 106, 110–12, 116, 120–21, 231n49 Evelyn, John, 123, 156, 211n2 Faerie Queene: Acrasia in, 73, 90, 93, 97, 99, 100, 111, 116; allegory in, 65, 66, 72, 88, 90, 103; Belphoebe in, 65, 90, 92, 104; Britomart in, 71, 79–80, 93–94, 96, 104, 113; Cave of Mammon in, 92, 102, 103–4, 113; Contemplation in, 81; destruction of Bower of Bliss in, 63, 71...