Acknowledgments

Introduction: Process and Connection / Miriam Jacobson and Julie Park

Part I. Inscription and Incorporation

Feather, Flourish and Flow: Handwriting’s Organic Technology / Julie Park

The Flower of Ointments and Early Modern Transcorporeality / Rebecca Laroche

The Paris Opéra as a Vibrating Body: Feeling Pygmalion’s Kiss / Kevin Lambert

Part II. Interface and Merger

Gorgonick Spirits: Myth, Figuration, and Mineral Vivency in the Writings of Thomas Browne / Jessica Wolfe

Things with Kid Gloves / Lynn Festa

Vegetable Loves: Botanical Enthrallment in Early Modern Poetry / Miriam Jacobson

Part III. Vitality and Decay

Knowing the World through Rococo Ornamental Prints / Michael Yonan

Fingers in the Pie: Baked Meats, Adultery, and Adulteration / Diane Purkiss

Milton’s Hair / Jayne Lewis

Afterword: Virtuous Properties of the Organic Supplement / Julia Reinhard Lupton

Notes on Contributors

Index

Miriam Jacobson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia and author of Barbarous Antiquity: Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England.
Julie Park is Assistant Curator and Faculty Fellow at the Special Collections Center of Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University, and author of The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England.