{"product_id":"violence-and-grace-9780810136588","title":"Violence and Grace","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEstablishes a conceptual link between early modern English drama and twentieth-century political theology, both of which emerge from the experience of political crisis. Nicole Miller's analyses retrieve for political theology the relations between gender, sexuality, and the political aesthetics of violence on the early modern stage, addressing the plays of Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Miller constantly engages major ideas and texts, she shows perhaps her greatest talent as a close reader, not only of the early modern texts but of their sources and the more contemporary theory she uses to illuminate them . . .The result is a closely reasoned and closely argued contribution to today’s early modern studies that also understands its roots in a precarious present.\"\"  - \u003ci\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Problem: Exceptional Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: States of Affliction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrologue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sexual Politics of Pain: Hannah Arendt Meets Shakespeare’s Shrew\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUndead Letters: Marlowe’s and Kantorowicz’s Reliquary Arts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Revenger’s Decision: Exceptional Law Between Middleton and Schmitt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: States of Grace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSacred Life and Sacrificial Economy: Coriolanus in No-Man’s Land\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Aesthetics of Messianic Time: Gravity and Grace in King Lear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul’s Call; Cymbeline’s Calling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast Words: Reading Political Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862991044951,"sku":"9780810136588","price":27.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810136588.jpg?v=1759919304","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/violence-and-grace-9780810136588","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}