Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics

by Emily Sun

Book Overview

This book investigates Shakespeare's King Lear and its originative power in modern literature with specific attention to the early work of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and to the American writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans's 1941 collaboration, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. It examines how these later readers return to the play to interrogate emphatically the question of the relations between literature and politics in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823232816
• ISBN13: 9780823232819
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"