Political aesthetics in the era of Shakespeare /

"This book examines the relationship between art and politics in Shakespeare and the early modern era, with a focus on the relation between aesthetics and sensory experience"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pye, Christopher, 1953- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2020]
Series:Rethinking the Early Modern.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Early Modern Political Aesthetics / Christopher Pye
  • Part One : An Early Modern Aesthetic
  • "No Toy But Was Her Pattern" : Renaissance Friendship and the Rise of Aesthetics in The Two Noble Kinsmen / Andrew Sisson
  • "No Cause, No Cause" : King Lear and the Space of the World / Christopher Pye
  • Thomas Rymer, Poetic Justice, and the Limits of Representation : Dispatches from the Representative Regime of Art / Russ Leo
  • Part Two : Aesthetics and the Politics of the Representable
  • Shakespeare and the Plebs / Tracey Sedinger
  • Timon's Hunger in the Forest: Toward a Political Aesthetics of Being beside Oneself / Joan Pong Linton
  • From Political Theology to Political Aesthetics in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Jennifer R. Rust
  • "Need Makes Good Schollers": Spenser and the Poverty of Aesthetics / Joel M. Dodson
  • Part Three: Island Voices
  • "I . . . Will Cry It O'er Again" : Virgil, The Tempest, and the Aesthetics of Imitation / Lydia C. Heinrichs
  • The Political, the Aesthetic, and the Utopian in The Tempest: A Shakespearean Dialectic Unfolded / Hugh Grady
  • "A Diversity of Sounds, All Horrible" : The Political Aesthetics of Soundscapes in The Tempest / Colby Gordon
  • Shakespeare's Sturm, Caliban's Drang : Walter Benjamin and The Tempest / Julia Reinhard Lupton