Histories of the Future (eBook)

On Shakespeare and Thinking Ahead

Carla Mazzio (Herausgeber)

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2024
296 Seiten
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-5128-2529-9 (ISBN)

Infos

What early modern and Shakespeare studies have to offer contemporary thinking about the futureWhat do early modern and Shakespeare studies have to offer contemporary thinking about the future? Joining a series of urgent conversations about "e;the future"e; as an object of analysis and theorization in early modern history, art history, literature, science, theology, and law, Histories of the Future addresses this question directly. This volume brings together essays that draw on early modern modes of "e;thinking ahead"e; to reconsider the ways in which the teaching and reading of Shakespeare help shape how one imagines the future from the vantage point of today.By stressing the importance of understanding how future-oriented thinking in the past informs perceptions of possibility in the present-with special attention to contemporary issues of climate change, economic inequality, race and indigeneity, queer lives, physical and mental health crises, academic precarity, conditions of scholarly labor, and the ongoing disastrous effects of settler colonialism-Histories of the Future contributes to a rich and expanding field of scholarship on temporality in pre- and early modern literatures and cultures. In the process, it also engages with key insights of twenty-first-century critical and cultural theory in reexamining historical issues ranging from the imagined inevitability of progress or apocalypse to fraught conditions of succession, chronology, catastrophe, influence, prophecy, and risk.With essays by J. K. Barret, Urvashi Chakravarty, Drew Daniel, John Garrison, Margreta de Grazia, Jean E. Howard, Jeffrey Masten, Marissa Nicosia, Vimala Pasupathi, Kathryn Vomero Santos, and Scott Manning Stevens, Histories of the Future explores the possibilities and limits of early modern futures for "e;thinking ahead"e; today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: academia • Adaptation • Catastrophe • climate change • Covid 19 • crisis of the humanities • critical race theory • Disease • does shakespeare matter • Early modern • Environmental Studies • futurity • global warming • higher education • Historicism • History of Science • history of shakespeare studies • HIV-AIDS • indigeneity • indigenous studies • literary cultural studies • Marxism • Marxist Criticism • Mental Health • new approaches to shakespeare • new approaches to Shakespeare plays sonnets • PLAYS • Presentism • Queer Theory • Shakespeare • Sonnets • teaching reading Shakespeare • Tenure • The Future • theories of time • University • why study shakespeare
• ISBN-10: 1-5128-2529-8 / 1512825298
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5128-2529-9 / 9781512825299