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The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts In A Material World

The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts In A Material World

Grady, Hugh

Paperback

Series: Clarendon Paperbacks

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 0198183224
ISBN13: 9780198183228
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Feb 2 1995
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.54
Language: English
Every epoch recreates its classical icons--and for literary culture no icon is more central or more protean than Shakespeare. Even though finding the authentic Shakespeare has been a goal of scholarship since the eighteenth century, he has always been constructed as a contemporary author. In this critical study, Grady charts the construction of Shakespeare as a twentieth-century text, redirecting new historicist methods to an investigation of the social roots of contemporary Shakespeare criticism. Beginning with the formation of professionalism as an ideology in the Victorian Age, this theoretically-informed study describes widespread attempts to save the values of the cultural tradition, in reformulated Modernist guise, from the threat of professionalist positivism in modern universities.

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