Modernist Shakespeare Critical Texts in a Material World

Name: Modernist Shakespeare Critical Texts in a Material World
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ISBN: 9780198183228

ISBN-10: 0198183224

ISBN-13: 9780198183228

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: Hugh Grady

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This is a major study of the history of Shakespeare criticism in the modern era.Every epoch recreates its classic icons - and for literary culture none is more central nor more protean than Shakespeare. Even though finding the authentic Shakespeare has been a goal of scholarship since the eighteenth century, he has always been constructed as a contemporary author. Hugh Grady charts the construction of Shakespeare as a twentieth-century Modernist text by redirecting 'new historicist' methods to an investigation of the social roots of contemporary Shakespeare crticismitself. Beginning with the formation of professionalism as an ideology in the Victorian age, this much praised study describes…

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List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/2/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Constructing the Modernist Paradigm and G. Wilson Knight's Spatial Hermeneutics



The New Critical Shakespeare: The Tensions of Unity



Professionalism, Nationalism, Modernism the Case of E. M. W. Tillyard



Toward the Postmodern Shakespeare Contemporary Critical Trends


Bibliography


Index