Description
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of current debates.
About the Author
Valerie Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and an award winning author and teacher. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992; rpt 2014), and most recently Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (Pennsylvania University Press, 2015). She co-edited Gay Shame (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Her current project is Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality.
Reviews
the volume's forty-three contributors can trace a feminism whose theoretical and historical concerns intersect with other identity-based critical approaches such as queer theory, critical race theory, disability studies, animal studies, and postcolonial studies, as well as historical phenomenology and the new materialism. As this suggests, the volume makes a particularly urgent and timely contribution to our field. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198820406
Author Valerie Traub
Format Paperback
Page Count 816
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1350g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 169mm * 41mm
About the Author
Valerie Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and an award winning author and teacher. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992; rpt 2014), and most recently Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (Pennsylvania University Press, 2015). She co-edited Gay Shame (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Her current project is Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality.
Reviews
the volume's forty-three contributors can trace a feminism whose theoretical and historical concerns intersect with other identity-based critical approaches such as queer theory, critical race theory, disability studies, animal studies, and postcolonial studies, as well as historical phenomenology and the new materialism. As this suggests, the volume makes a particularly urgent and timely contribution to our field. * Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198820406
Author Valerie Traub
Format Paperback
Page Count 816
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1350g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 169mm * 41mm
