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Introduction.- In conversation with Hugh Grady.- Impure aesthetics.- Hugh Grady and Shakespeare’s Impure Aesthetics.- In Troy There Lies the Present: The Presentism of Shakespearean Aesthetics.- Impure utopias.- Shakespeare’s Impure Ethics: Love, Exile, and the Crisis of Moral Luck in As You Like It.-Psychological Utopia in The Taming of the Shrew.- Utopia in the here and now: On Bloch, Job and Lear.- Benjamin’s Messianic Violence and Shakespeare’s As You Like It.- Sexed and raced economies.- Love’s Usury: Non-reproductive Sex and Auto-reproductive Money in John Donne.-The Rape of Lucrece in the Context of the European Migrant Crisis.- Presentist prospects.- Presentism Today: Dylan, Shakespeare, Rice and Bread.- ‘The point is to change it’ The Imperative for Activist Literary Studies.- Hugh Grady, Presentism, and Animal Studies.

Shakespeare Presentism and the Legacy of Hugh Grady

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: 11/09/2025
      ISBN13: 9783031886188, 978-3031886188
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      Introduction.- In conversation with Hugh Grady.- Impure aesthetics.- Hugh Grady and Shakespeare’s Impure Aesthetics.- In Troy There Lies the Present: The Presentism of Shakespearean Aesthetics.- Impure utopias.- Shakespeare’s Impure Ethics: Love, Exile, and the Crisis of Moral Luck in As You Like It.-Psychological Utopia in The Taming of the Shrew.- Utopia in the here and now: On Bloch, Job and Lear.- Benjamin’s Messianic Violence and Shakespeare’s As You Like It.- Sexed and raced economies.- Love’s Usury: Non-reproductive Sex and Auto-reproductive Money in John Donne.-The Rape of Lucrece in the Context of the European Migrant Crisis.- Presentist prospects.- Presentism Today: Dylan, Shakespeare, Rice and Bread.- ‘The point is to change it’ The Imperative for Activist Literary Studies.- Hugh Grady, Presentism, and Animal Studies.

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