Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare

by Jonathan Gil Harris

Book Overview

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

The New Historicism of the 1980s and early 1990s was preoccupied with the fashioning of early modern subjects. But, Jonathan Gil Harris notes, the pronounced tendency now is to engage with objects. From textiles to stage beards to furniture, objects are read by literary critics as closely as literature used to be. For a growing number of Renaissance and Shakespeare scholars,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222146X
• ISBN13: 9780812221466
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"