Untimely matter in the time of Shakespeare

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"In Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, Jonathan Gil Harris challenges the way in which we conventionally understand physical objects and their relation to history. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, Harris considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on...

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Main Author: Harris, Jonathan Gil
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
Subjects:
1066-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History.
Literatur.
English literature.
Literature and history.
Literature and society.
Historiography.
English literature > Early modern.
Great Britain > History > 1066-1687 > Historiography.
Englisch.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: palimpsested time: toward a theory of untimely matter
  • Reading matter : George Herbert and the East-West palimpsests of The temple
  • Performing history : East-West palimpsests in William Shakespeare's second Henriad
  • The writing on the wall : London's old Jewry and John Stow's urban palimpsest
  • The smell of gunpowder : Macbeth and the palimpsests of olfaction
  • Touching matters : Margaret Cavendish's and Hélène Cixous's palimpsested bodies
  • Crumpled handkerchiefs : William Shakespeare's and Michel Serres's palimpsested time
  • Coda: dis-orientations: eastern nonstandard time.

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