Crossing Gender in Shakespeare: Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within

by James W. Stone

Book Overview

In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his critics. Issues addressed range from the cross dressing of Viola and Imogen to the cross gartering of Malvolio, the sound of "un" and the uncanny lyric narcissism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415873606
• ISBN13: 9780415873604
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"