Description
Book SynopsisCombines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity. This title discusses the distinctly economic character of early modern subjectivity and how this, too, is implicated in our own modern modes of historical understanding.
Trade Review“Christopher Pye’s elegantly written and argued
The Vanishing is a terrific book. It could by itself renew interest in the merits and possibilities of psychoanalytic theory not only for reading early modern culture but for literary studies more generally.”—
Karen Newman, author of
Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama“Pye moves with great concision, delivering dazzling insights and startling conjunctions.
The Vanishing thus makes an important intervention in early modern studies, recalling the promise of ‘theory’ to advance our understanding of questions of history and representation.”—Jonathan Goldberg, author of
Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance ExamplesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Theater, the Market, and the Subject of History
2. Froth in the Mirror: Demonism, Sexuality, and the Early Modern Subject
3. Vanishing Point
4. Dumb Hamlet
5. Subject Matter
Notes
Bibliography
Index
