Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare: Text, Stage Canon
Book SynopsisBased on three lectures given by Professor Richard Proudfoot in October 1999 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of The Globe, The Arden Shakespeare's centenary and Professor Proudfoot's retirement from King's College; this enjoyable volume aims to give a general and non-specialist audience some sense of what scholarship has achieved in three critical areas of Shakespeare studies at the end of the twentieth century. Freshly and engagingly written, this lively volume will appeal to all those with an interest in Shakespeare studies.
£34.99
de Gruyter Pragmatische Geschichte
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£97.46
Walter de Gruyter Literarästhetik und Kulturdifferenz
£101.96
de Gruyter Das Lateinische Lehrgedicht Der Frühen Neuzeit Im
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£87.99
Walter de Gruyter Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller als literarische Figuren 17501850
£103.96
Böhlau-Verlag GmbH Briefe und vermischte Schriften 17651815
£72.00
Harrassowitz Ein Herzensbrecher Und Seine Frauen. Jin Ping
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£158.40
Brill I Fink Liebestragodie
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£124.00
Schwabe Verlag Basel Johann Caspar Lavater
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£40.50
Thorbecke Vormarzliche Verleger Zwischen Zensur, Buchmarkt
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Universitätsverlag Winter mein lieber deutscher Horaz
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Universitätsverlag Winter WielandStudien 12
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Universitätsverlag Winter Gelegenheitsdichter im Sog der Geschichte
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Universitätsverlag Winter Sterbbegier und Todesangst
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V&R unipress genaueste Localität Individualität und
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Pari Publishing Shakespeare's 100 Greatest Dramatic Images
Book SynopsisThis book's unique format makes it a versatile companion for a wide range of readers from the novice to the expert. The book is centered on 100 of Shakespeare's greatest dramatic images - at least one taken from each of his plays. They deal with the enduring subjects of poetry - love, loss, loveliness, folly, injustice - in voices which range from witty to tender, from indignant to resigned. "Shakespeare's 100 Greatest Dramatic Images" opens with a series of word games that anyone can play - individually or in a group - that introduce the reader to the selected images. These images are then placed within the context of the plays themselves in a short essay - one for each of the 37 plays.Where appropriate, historical and theatrical perspectives, as well as modern interpretations and controversies, are explored. This book can be dipped into at random, taken a section at a time, or read from start to finish as a short but original introduction to some of the English language's richest prose and poetry. The Saunders have created a Website that includes images chosen by a variety of Shakespeare enthusiasts and performers - some famous, AS Byatt, Dame Judi Dench, Patrick Garland, etc - and have invited the public to add to the collection.Trade Review"I can think of no livelier introduction to Shakespeare and his work, and no greater indulgence for dedicated lovers of the plays. Claire and John Saunders lift up exquisite image after image, like morsels from a feast, and in doing so, uncover for us the world of each play -- its tensions, its richness and, always, its elementally human concerns. Their short discussions are deft, elegant and highly readable. The word-games are witty and expert. Like the very best scholars, they wear their impressive knowledge lightly. Dabble, dip in or devour in a sitting. Shakespeare's 100 Greatest Dramatic Images is a rare treat." Alison MacLeod, author of The Wave Theory of Angels and Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction"Amazing achievementA...captures the very best in Shakespeare's language." Hugh Adlington, Lecturer in English, Birmingham University, UK."A teach-yourself Shakespeare for grown upsA...along the same lines as Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Like punctuation, Shakespeare is one of those areas where many adults lack confidence." Linda Cookson, Vice-principal, Central School of Speech and Drama, London"Beautifully and accessibly writtenA...an absolute delight had me enthralled for daysA...attempts to do for Shakespeare what Lynne Truss did for Fowler." Len Masterman, Senior Research Fellow in Communication and Politics, Liverpool University.
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Bloomsbury India Shakespeare and Indian Theatre: The Politics of
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Oxford University Press The Tale of alBarraq Son of Rawhan and Layla the Chaste
Book SynopsisThis book presents a bilingual edition and study of an anonymous work of early Arabic fiction set in pre-Islamic times: an Arab maiden called ''Layla the Chaste'' is kidnapped and threatened with forced marriage to a Persian king. Ultimately, she is saved by her handsome and beloved cousin al-Barraq, and they marry and live happily ever after. This knight-in-shining-armour-rescues-damsel-in-distress narrative, which combines elements of the Arabic popular epic (sira) with others from the Udhri; love story and the western fairy tale, was misinterpreted as history by scholars in the 19th century. In the two substantive chapters that frame her translation of the tale, Hammond discusses the text''s evolution in the Arab Renaissance and its metamorphoses in 20th-century popular culture. She also analyses the structure of the tale to look for clues as to its real origins, shedding new light on theories of the development of the Arabic novel.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations A Note on Transliteration and Terminology A Note on the Manuscripts and Published Editions A Note on the (Incorrect) Attribution of the Tale to ?Umar b. Shabba Key Dates 1: From Fiction to History and Back: The Tale, its Versions and its Afterlives 2: The Tale of al-Barrāq Son of Rawḥān and Laylā the Chaste, in English translation 3: The Narrative, Its Components and its 'Novelisation' Bibliography Appendix: The Arabic Text
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The University of Chicago Press The Eloquent Shakespeare A Pronouncing Dictionary
Book SynopsisAn actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as chanson, phantasime, or quaestor, many otherwise unflappable actors can be rendered speechless. This book aims to untie those tongues and help anyone speak Shakespeare's language with ease.Trade Review"Gary Logan has given us a pronouncing dictionary for Shakespeare which surpasses anything previously available in both scope and depth. Thoroughly researched and carefully documented, it clearly indicates pronunciations which are conjectural or matters of debate, as well as laying out in detail the standard of pronunciation adopted for the dictionary." (Ellen O'Brien, head of voice and text, Shakespeare Theatre Company)"
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The University of Chicago Press Fictions of the Cosmos
Book SynopsisBy examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, this title shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide.
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The University of Chicago Press Enlightenment Orientalism
Book SynopsisReveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, this title poses a range of questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction.Trade Review"Without question, Enlightenment Orientalism is an illuminating, persuasive, and provocative revaluation of eighteenth-century fiction." (Robert Markley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)"
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Enlightenment Orientalism Resisting the Rise of
Book SynopsisReveals how "Oriental" tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century.Trade Review"Without question, Enlightenment Orientalism is an illuminating, persuasive, and provocative revaluation of eighteenth-century fiction." (Robert Markley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)"
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The University of Chicago Press This Wide and Universal Theater Shakespeare in
Book SynopsisExplores how Shakespeare's plays were produced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. This book explains how the Elizabethan playhouse conveyed a sense of place using minimal scenery, from the Forest of Arden in As You Like It to the tavern in Henry IV, Part I.Trade Review"An eminent Shakespeare scholar and author, Bevington offers a concise, lucid, and unique overview of the history of Shakespeare in various modes of performance, from stage to film to television." - Choice "Bevington makes interesting, nuanced and original points about staging and interpretation that reveal the dynamism and complexity of Shakespeare's canon." - Financial Times "Even veteran Shakespeareans will profit from the varied reminders of how important performance and staging have always been to the interpretation of the plays." - Renaissance Quarterly"
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeares Politics Emersion Emergent Village
Book SynopsisTaking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. Shakespeare's work is once again seen as a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems.
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeare on Love and Friendship
Book SynopsisThis volume includes essays on "Romeo and Juliet", "Anthony and Cleopatra", "Measure For Measure", "Troilus and Cressida" and "The Winter's Tale". It gives a synoptic treatment of eros - a philosophical reflection on Shakespeare's conception of love and friendship.
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The University of Chicago Press Cultures of Letters
Book SynopsisUsing a variety of historical sources, Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the domestic culture of letters; mass-produced cheap reading; the culture of post-emancipation black education. He describes how these socially structured worlds shaped literary practice for writers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: On the Idea of Cultures of Letters 1: Sparing the Rod: Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America 2: Veiled Ladies: Toward a History of Antebellum Entertainment 3: Starting Out in the 1860s: Alcott, Authorship, and the Postbellum Literary Field 4: The Reading of Regions For a History of Literary Access The Reading of Regions: A Study in the Social Life of Forms 5: Jewett, Regionalism, and Writing as Women's Work 6: "Why Could Not a Colored Man?": Chesnutt and the Transaction of Authorship Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press By the Sweat of the Brow Literature and Labor in
Book SynopsisThe growth of industrialism, the rise of professionalism and the decline of slavery led to debates in 19th-century America about the concept of work. This book examines the literary view of this debate, arguing that many writers felt an affinity between the mental labour of writing and manual work.
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The University of Chicago Press Disowned by Memory
Book SynopsisThe author connects the accidents of the poet Wordsworth's life with the originality of his works, tracking the impulses that turned him to poetry after the death of his parents and during his years as an enthusiastic disciple of the French Revolution. Bromwich argues that his political idealism deeply motivated his writings of the 1790s.
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The University of Chicago Press The Future of Illusion
Book SynopsisDraws on theorists such as Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt and their readings of Shakespeare, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Spinoza to illustrate that the dialogue between these modern and early modern figures can help us rethink the contemporary problem of political theology.Trade Review"As we, in late modernity, grapple with our own theological-political predicament, Victoria Kahn fearlessly interrogates early twentieth-century engagements with many of the early modern authors who gave the religion-politics dilemma its definitive form. Kahn's interpretive moves and conclusions are always enlightening and often exciting. The Future of Illusion is a timely, erudite, and well-argued book that will be an important intervention into contemporary debates over political theology." (John P. McCormick, University of Chicago)"
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The University of Chicago Press In the Kings Wake PostAbsolutist Culture in
Book SynopsisThis text traces the emergence of a post-absolutist culture in France across a range of works and genres including: Saint-Simon's memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency; Voltaire's first tragedy, Oedipe; Watteau's last great painting, L'Enseigne de Gersaint; and the plays of Marivaux.Table of ContentsA post-absolutist subject - Saint-Simon; "Le Poete Roy" - Voltaire's "Oedipe"; the king's insignia - Watteau, "L'Enseigne de Gersaint"; love and Speculation - Marivaux; drawing kings - Casanova and Voltaire.
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The University of Chicago Press Uncivil Unions
Book SynopsisPresents an interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage.Trade Review"Is it philosophy or political theory or literary analysis? Is it history of ideas or gender studies or cultural studies? I am convinced that this is an utterly original, brilliantly insightful, and scrupulously argued contribution to all of these areas. I cannot think of any text that treats this period with this kind of richness. A powerful, sound, and insightful work." (Richard T. Eldridge, Swarthmore College)"
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The University of Chicago Press Cruelty and Laughter Forgotten Comic Literature
Book SynopsisDealing with the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Britain, this book uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy.Trade Review"Placing Fielding, the greatest humourist of his time, back amongst his contemporaries and responding to the comedy of his writing as his first readers would have done is a masterly stroke in this scholarly, original and highly readable book." (Literary Review) "A brilliant and beautifully written book, Cruelty and Laughter introduces its readers to a world of violent mayhem, both rhetorical and real.... Such is the transformative experience of reading this book that I, for one, will never look at the mid-eighteenth century again in quite the same way." (H-Net Reviews) "Dickie mounts a compelling case against what he calls 'the politeness-sensibility paradigm,' by resurrecting a jeering counter-discourse that reveled in human suffering and physical affliction." (London Review of Books)"
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The University of Chicago Press CitizenSaints
Book SynopsisWho is a citizen? What is a person? Who is my neighbor? Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, the author unveils the figure of the citizensaint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception.Trade Review"Lupton's book wrestles seriously and intelligently with complex issues and brings a sophisticated theoretical perspective to bear on a crucial fault line in Western culture." (Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900) "Citizen-Saints is significant, not only as a contribution to Shakespearean studies, but also as a reflection upon the nature of citizenship and the relation between religion and politics. in our time." (Renaissance Quarterly)"
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The University of Chicago Press Uneasy Sensations Smollett the Body Smollett
Book SynopsisThe 18th-century comic novelist Tobias Smollett has often been criticized for the extreme physicality of his writing. This study explores works such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker in order to examine the author's representations of sentience.
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The University of Chicago Press The Enlightenment A Genealogy
Book SynopsisWhat was the Enlightenment? Seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, this title departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic.Trade Review"In this crisply written and remarkably wide-ranging and learned book, Dan Edelstein encourages us to rethink our conventional understanding of the Enlightenment and its origins. Teeming with intellectual vitality, this short book returns to readers a bounty of insight and creative thought." - J. B. Shank, author of The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment"
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The University of Chicago Press Humoring the Body Emotions and the Shakespearean
Book SynopsisProposes a new way to read the emotions of the early modern stage so that contemporary readers may recover some of the historical particularity in early modern expressions of emotional self-experience.Trade Review"Humoring the Body challenges our familiar understanding of the relationship between early modern subjects and their surroundings. Paster reveals a Shakespearean landscape saturated in feeling.... Paster's book is lively, colorful and often very funny. Its most striking achievement is to reveal not only how Shakespeare's men and women inhabited the world, but also how the world inhabited them in return." (Times Literary Supplement)"
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The University of Chicago Press Miltons Epic Voice The Narrator in Paradise Lost
Book SynopsisAlthough Paradise Lost is one of the greatest poems in the English language, it is also among the most difficult and intimidating, especially to unsophisticated readers. One of the most accessible critical studies of Paradise Lost and one frequently recommended by those teaching Milton is Anne Ferry's Milton's Epic Voice.
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The University of Chicago Press Floridoro A Chivalric Romance The Other Voice in
Book SynopsisThe first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristicsdark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceressesFloridoro is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while ona quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata Fonte (155592) vehemently defends women's capacity to rival male prowess in traditionally male-dominated spheres. And her open criticism of women's lack of education is echoed in the plights of various female characters who must depend on unreliable men. First published in 1581, Floridoro remains a vivacious and inventive narrative by a singular poet.
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The University of Chicago Press The Meaning of Shakespeare Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of two, Harold C. Goddard takes the reader on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his plays and genius.
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The University of Chicago Press The Meaning of Shakespeare Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis is the second volume of two, Harold C. Goddard takes the reader on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his plays and genius.
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The University of Chicago Press Shylock Is Shakespeare
Book SynopsisShylock, the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands a pound of flesh as security for a loan to his antisemitic tormentors, is one of Shakespeare's most complex and idiosyncratic characters. With his unsettling eloquence andhis varying voices of protest, play, rage, and refusal, Shylock remains a source of perennial fascination. What explains the strange and enduring force of this character, so unlike that of any other in Shakespeare's plays? Kenneth Gross posits thatthe figure of Shylock is so powerful because he is the voice of Shakespeare himself. Marvelously speculative and articulate, Gross's book argues that Shylock is a breakthrough for Shakespeare the playwright, an early realization of the Bard's power to create dramatic voices that speak for hidden, unconscious, even inhuman impulsescharacters larger than the plays that contain them and ready to escape the author's control. Shylock is also a mask for Shakespeare's own need, rage, vulnerability, and g
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeares Noise
Book SynopsisThis work explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking - especially rumour, slander, insult, vituperation and curse - and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays.
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The University of Chicago Press Small Change Women Learning Patriotism 17501810
Book SynopsisDuring the second half of the 18th century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. This work explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism permitted educated women to imagine themselves as political subjects.
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The University of Chicago Press Political Theology and Early Modernity
Book SynopsisPolitical theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book assembles scholars to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern conceptions of political theology.
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The University of Chicago Press Soliciting Interpretation
Book SynopsisThis collection gathers new essays by critics and scholars who are currently reshaping our sense of the function and nature of seventeenth-century poetry. Contributors return to the New Critical canon of Renaissance poetry with fresh perspectives that emphasize considerations of gender, ideology, power, and language. In the first group of essays, David Norbrook, Annabel Patterson, John Guillory, Rosemary Kegl, and Stephen Orgel explore the various ways in which a text can be political. Next, Arthur Marotti, Jane Tylus, and Jonathan Goldberg consider the circumstances of textual production and reception in the seventeenth century. Finally, Stanley Fish, Gordon Braden, Michael C. Schoenfeldt, and Maureen Quilligan discuss the particular forms of anxiety that result when seventeenth-century poets modify the traditional rhetoric of sexual desire to serve what seem to be erotic or religious purposes. These essays, accompanied by an extensive editors' introduction, intersect less in their sh
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The University of Chicago Press Great William Writers Reading Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe Great William is the first book to explore how seven renowned writersSamuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hugheswrestled with Shakespeare in the very moments when they were reading his work. What emerges is a constellation of remarkable intellectual and emotional encounters. Theodore Leinwand builds impressively detailed accounts of these writers' experiences through their marginalia, lectures, letters, journals, and reading notes. We learn why Woolf associated reading Shakespeare with her brother Thoby, and what Ginsberg meant when referring to the mouth feel of Shakespeare's verse. From Hughes's attempts to find a skeleton key to all of Shakespeare's plays to Berryman's tormented efforts to edit King Lear, Leinwand reveals the palpable energy and conviction with which these seven writers engaged with Shakespeare, their moments of utter self-confidence and profound vexation. In uncovering these intense public
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeare and the Law
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The University of Chicago Press The Future of Illusion Political Theology and
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological underpinnings of modern politics, Victoria Kahn proposes a return to secularismwhose origins she locates in the art, literature, and political theory of the early modern periodand argues in defense of literature and art as a force for secular liberal culture. Kahn draws on theorists such as Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt and their readings of Shakespeare, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Spinoza to illustrate that the dialogue between these modern and early modern figures can help us rethink the contemporary problem of political theology. Twentieth-century critics, she shows, saw the early modern period as a break from the older form of political theology that entailed the theological legitimization of the state. Rather
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