Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality : Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism Paperback / softback
by Alan (University of Sussex, UK) Sinfield
Part of the Accents on Shakespeare series
Paperback / softback
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Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement.
Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument and as it informs particular works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially in relation to sexuality in early-modern England and queer theory.
The book has several interlocking preoccupations:theories of textuality and reading the political location of Shakespearean plays and the organisation of literary culture today the operation of state power in the early-modern period and the scope for dissidence the sex/gender system in that period and the application of queer theory in history.
These preoccupations are explored in and around a range of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Throughout the book Sinfield re-presents cultural materialism, framing it not as a set of propositions, as has often been done, but as a cluster of unresolved problems.
His brilliant, lucid and committed readings demonstrate that the ‘unfinished business’ of cultural materialism - and Sinfield’s work in particular - will long continue to produce new questions and challenges for the fields of Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:238 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/06/2006
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- ISBN:9780415402361
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:238 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/06/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415402361
