Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race, and Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9781472421753 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 276 str.

Ania Loomba;Melissa E. Sanchez;Professor Allyson M. Poska

Opis

Features essays by scholars in the field of early modern studies on the possibilities of feminist criticism and theory. This book responds to anxieties that feminist criticism is in a state of decline by attending to, instead of ignoring debates and differences that have emerged in light of scholarly work on race, affect, and sexuality.

Spis treści

Introduction: Why feminism? Why now?, Ania Loomba and Melissa E. Sanchez. Part I Histories: Feminism and the Burdens of History, Ania Loomba and Melissa E. Sanchez; Family Quarrels: Feminist Criticism, Queer Studies, and Shakespeare in the 21st Century, Coppélia Kahn; Tempestuous Transitions and Double Vision: from Early to Late Modern Gendered Performances in Higher Education, Diana Henderson. Part II Methods: ‘First as tragedy, then as…’: Gender, Genre, History, and Romeo and Juliet, Crystal Bartolovich; Shakespeare's Laundry: Feminist Futures in the archive, Natasha Korda; Constructions of Race and Gender in the Two Texts of Othello, Leah Marcus. Part III Bodies: ‘Travelling bodyes’: Native Women of the Northeast and Northwest Passage Ventures and English Discourses of Empire, Bernadette Andrea; Moral Constitution: Elizabeth Carey’s Tragedy of Mariam and the Color of Blood, Kimberly Anne Coles; Gertrude/Ophelia: Feminist Intermediality, Ekphrasis, and Tenderness in Hamlet, Sujata Iyengar. Part IV Agency: Samson’s Gospel of Sex: Failed Universals in Milton and Freud, Richard Halpern; Chasing Chastity: the Case of Desdemona, Will Stockton; Whose Body?, Kathryn Schwarz. Afterword: Early Modern (Feminist) Methods, Valerie Traub.