In recent years the left has transformed traditional approaches to
literature and culture. Critical movements such as Cultural
Materialism and New Historicism have succeeded to the point where
they now constitute the new academic order.
Scott Wilson explains and demonstrates the power of these modes
of critical enquiry and explores their limitations. His book
provides a forceful critical engagement with major figures in the
field - Francis Barker, Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Dollimore, Terry
Eagleton, Jonathan Goldberg, Stephen Greenblatt, Alan Sinfield -
whose work represents a broad spectrum of positions from Marxism,
which privileges class, to a radical criticism emphasising the
politics of difference.
"Cultural Materialism" problematizes a number of fundamental
Marxist assumptions with recourse to the theories of Georges
Bataille. The author also shows how cultural materialism is applied
in practice through readings of key Renaissance texts by, among
others, Shakespeare and Spenser, and later work by Dollimore and
Sinfield on queer theory, particularly with regard to Oscar
Wilde.
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