Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period

Edited by Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson

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Published: November 2022

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Series: Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

Page Count: 512 Pages

Illustrations: 20 b&w illustrations, 70 colour illustrations

Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00

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Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period.

This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology. The volume advances questions about the history of globalization by focusing on how the expansion of global transit offered possibilities for interactions that included the testing of local identities through inventive experimentation with new and various forms of culture. Case studies show how the imposition of European economic, religious, political, and military models on other parts of the world unleashed unprecedented forces of invention as institutionalized powers came up against the creativity of peoples, cultural practices, materials, and techniques of making. In doing so, Making Worlds offers an important rethinking of how early globalization inconsistently generated ongoing dynamics of making, unmaking, and remaking worlds.

Angela Vanhaelen is a professor of art history at McGill University.

Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Memorial Clark Library at UCLA.

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1. Introduction
Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson

Part One: Material Flows

2. The Early Modern Fold: Pleated Media in Japan’s Encounter with Europe
Kristopher Kersey

3. From Textile to Text: Cloth, Slavery, and the Archive in the Dutch Atlantic
Carrie Anderson

4. Drawing Worlds in Smoke, Powder, and Fumes: Bodies and Trifles in Il Tabacco, the Courtly Ballet Staged in Turin (1650)
Elisa Antonietta Daniele

5. From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art and Ambivalence in Early Modern Japan
Benjamin Schmidt

6. Eggs, Cheese, and (Francis) Bacon
Helen Smith

Part Two: In-Between Spaces

7. The Cabinet and the World: Non-European Objects in Early Modern European Collections
Daniela Bleichmar

8. Le Jeu du monde: Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern France
Ting Chang

9. The World Contained in an Imperial Ottoman Album
Emine Fetvaci

10. World Building, the Folger Folios, and the University of British Columbia
Patricia Badir

Part Three: Other Worlds

11. Ascetic Ecology: Landscape of a Desert Saint
Lyle Massey

12. The End of All: Worldliness, Piety, and the Social Life of Maps in the Post-Reformation English Household
Gavin Hollis

13. Enlightenment Cosmology: A Medialogical Interpretation
J.B. Shank

14. Masked Alliances: Global Politics and Economy in the Art and Performance Rituals of Mexico’s Indigenous People
John M.D. Pohl and Danny Zborover

15. Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch Republic
Thijs Weststeijn

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Index

"The essays in this impressive volume focus our attention on the ‘in-between spaces’ of the global early modern, where differing vantage points came into contact and jostled against one another. By emphasizing how these spaces were negotiated through the lives of things such as folding fans, eggs, and board games, they show how early modernity, even as it resulted in the destruction of many societies, initiated a creative process of world-making."
Michael Gaudio, Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota

"Breathtaking in scope, Making Worlds opens onto the vast web of global connectivity that comes into view when new questions are raised about the local specificity of early modern artefacts, texts, objects, images, and practices. This collection offers a geographically expansive, methodologically wide-ranging, and materially diverse assemblage of beautifully conceived interdisciplinary studies that constitute an important and timely pivot in early modern scholarship toward mundialization. There is something here for humanists of all stripes who will discover connections within and across the chapters that challenge disciplinary silos."
Marjorie Rubright, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Art / Art History

Literary Studies / Early Modern Literature

Renaissance Studies