The storm at sea : political aesthetics in the time of Shakespeare /

The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in whi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pye, Christopher, 1953- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Political and social views. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History. Aesthetics > Political aspects. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.

Table of Contents:

Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Early Modern Political Aesthetics
Chapter 2: Leonardo's Hand: Mimesis, Sexuality, and the Polis
Chapter 3: Shakespeare Distracted: Aesthetics and Political Foundations from
Spanish Tragedy to Hamlet
Chapter 4: "To throw out our eyes for brave Othello"
Chapter 5: Aesthetics and Absolutism in The Winter's Tale
Chapter 6: The Beating Mind: The Tempest, Aesthetics and History
Chapter 7: Hobbes and the Hydrophobes: The Fate of the Aesthetic in the Time of
the State
Notes
Bibliography
Index.