How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol

by Alice Dailey

Book Overview

How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare's English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed. Considering the plays in these terms exposes their affinity with a transhistorical array of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501763652
• ISBN13: 9781501763656
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up