Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature: Wax Works

1. Introduction: Wax Concepts

1.1  Conceiving Wax

1.2  Producing Wax

1.3  Using Wax

1.4  Thinking Wax

1.5  Working Wax

2. Wax Seals: Gendered Relations in Shakespeare

2.2  Writing Maria / Writing Olivia

2.3  Writing Gender

3. Wax Minds: Writing Subjectivity and Agency in Hamlet and The Atheist's Tragedy

3.1 Learning Wax Virtues

3.3 Imprinting Charlemont

4. Wax Patterning: Cavendish and the Physics of Wax

4.1 Thinking Patterns and Impressions in Philosophical Letters

4.2 Waxing Social and Political

4.3 Patterning Worlds and Relations in The Blazing World

5.Wax Arts: Projects of Transformation in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Donne's Sappho to Philaenis

5.1 Deforming wax in The Duchess of Malfi

6. Wax Hybrids: Re-Thinking Subjects and Objects in Ovid, Paré, Descartes, and Spenser

6.1 Dreaming Prosthetics

6.2 Animating Allegories

7. Epilogue: A Figure of Wax