Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical EssaysJames Schiffer Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars in the field. The contributors' diverse approaches range from the new historicism to the new bibliography, from formalism to feminism, from reception theory to cultural materialism, and from biographical criticism to queer theory. In addition, James Schiffer's introduction offers a comprehensive survey of 400 years of criticism of these fascinating, enigmatic poems. |
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... Wilde's fiction " The Portrait of Mr. W. H. " ( the love between the two men in Wilde's homoerotic fantasy is idealized and nonsexual ) . William Hughes reappears yet again , as a sea cook , in Samuel Butler's account ; Butler informs ...
... Wilde's fiction " The Portrait of Mr. W. H. " ( the love between the two men in Wilde's homoerotic fantasy is idealized and nonsexual ) . William Hughes reappears yet again , as a sea cook , in Samuel Butler's account ; Butler informs ...
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... Wilde's " The Portrait of Mr. W. H. , " these collections tend to de - emphasize or even ignore the biographical questions . Booth is an even more radical agnostic , as his oft - quoted 1977 statement about Shakespeare's sexuality ...
... Wilde's " The Portrait of Mr. W. H. , " these collections tend to de - emphasize or even ignore the biographical questions . Booth is an even more radical agnostic , as his oft - quoted 1977 statement about Shakespeare's sexuality ...
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... Wilde's " charmed fascination " with the Sonnets " and his invocation of them in his own defence on the final day of his third trial , in May 1895 , had a lasting , and deeply inhibiting , effect on their subsequent reception " ( Duncan ...
... Wilde's " charmed fascination " with the Sonnets " and his invocation of them in his own defence on the final day of his third trial , in May 1895 , had a lasting , and deeply inhibiting , effect on their subsequent reception " ( Duncan ...
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Contents
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Shakespeares Sonnets and the Economy | 63 |
Sodomy Reproduction and Signification | 68 |
The Sexing of Shakespeares | 75 |
The Scandal of Shakespeares Sonnets 1994 | 89 |
The Politics | 113 |
The Silent Speech of Shakespeares Sonnets 1998 | 135 |
Shakespeares Petrarchism | 163 |
Whats the Use? Or The Problematic of Economy | 263 |
Texts and Contexts | 285 |
Shakespeares Sonnets | 305 |
The Reproduction of Coercion and Blot | 325 |
Shakespeares Sonnets and Early | 347 |
Shakespeares Dark Lady as | 369 |
Reconsidering The Portrait of Mr W | 391 |
On the Sexual Politics | 411 |
Lars Engle | 185 |
Storing Loss in the Sonnets | 199 |
Politics Heresy and Martyrdom in Shakespeares Sonnet 124 | 219 |
Christian Figurality and Shakespeares | 241 |
Valerie Traub | 431 |
Shakespeares Sonnets and | 455 |
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