Faultlines: Cultural Materialism & the Politics of Dissident Reading

by Alan Sinfield

Book Overview

If we come to consciousness within a language that is complicit with the social order, how can we conceive, let alone organize, resistance to that social order? This key question in the politics of reading and subcultural practice informs Alan Sinfield's book on writing in early-modern England.

New historicism has often shown people trapped in a web of language and culture. In lively discussions of writings by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520076079
• ISBN13: 9780520076075
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"