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Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality - Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality - Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism (Hardcover)
Series: Accents on Shakespeare
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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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