Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading (Paperback)

If we come to consciousness within a language that is complicit with the social order, how can we conceive, let alone organize, resistance? This key question in the politics of reading and subcultural practice informs Alan Sinfield's book on writing in early-modern England. New historicism has often shown people trapped in a web of language and culture; through discussions of writing by Shakespeare, Sidney, Donne, and Marlow, Sinfield reassesses the scope of dissidence and control. The early-modern state, Christianity, and the cultural apparatus, despite an ideology of unity and explicit viloence, could not but allow space to challenging voices. Disruptions in concepts of hierarchy, nationality, gender and sexuality force their way into literary texts. Sinfield is often provocative. He examines "Julius Caesar" produces a different politics, and compares Sidney's idea of poetry to Leonid Brezhnev's, and reinstates the concept of character in the face of post-structuralist theory. He keeps the current politics of literary study always in view, especially in a substantial chapter on Shakespeare in the United States. Sinfield subjects interactions between class, ethnicity, sexuality an

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1992
Authors:	Alan Sinfield (Professor of English, School of Cultural and Community Studies)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	378
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-811995-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	0-19-811995-X
Barcode:	9780198119951

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