How to Do Things with Dead People

History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol

Alice Dailey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2024
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7589-5 (ISBN)

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How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare's English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed. Considering the plays in these terms exposes their affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting with dead things—technologies such as literary doppelgängers, photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, glitch art, capital punishment machines, and cloning.

By situating Shakespeare's historical drama in this intermedial conversation, Dailey challenges conventional assumptions about what constitutes the context of a work of art and contests foundational models of linear temporality that inform long-standing conceptions of historical periodization and teleological order. Working from an eclectic body of theories, pictures, and machines that transcend time and media, Dailey composes a searching exploration of how the living use the dead to think back and look forward, to rule, to love, to wish and create.

Alice Dailey is Professor of English at Villanova University. She is the author of The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution.

Introduction: The Luminous Spiral and the Cigarette Box, or Technologies of the Afterdeath

1. Little, Little Graves: Shakespeare's Photographs of Richard II

2. Haunted Histories: Dramatic Double Exposure in Henry IV, Parts One and Two

3. Dummies and Doppelgängers: Performing for the Dead in 1 Henry VI

4. The King Machine: Reproducing Sovereignty in 3 Henry VI

5. Fuck Off and Die: The Queercrip Reign of Richard III

Postscript: Lazarus Again

Erscheinungsdatum	04.03.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; 19 Halftones, color
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5017-7589-8 / 1501775898
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-7589-5 / 9781501775895
Zustand	Neuware