基本説明
Contributors consider culture as a form of resistance to the oppressions that are part of a society dominated by class.
Full Description
Margot Heinemann, who died in 1992, was a great scholar of the Renaissance period. As a Marxist, she inspired many with her commitment to the idea that cultural activity was central to the continuing struggle against oppression. These writers consider cultural theory in her honour.
Contents
The politics of modernism, David Forgacs; safest in storms - George Wither in the 1650s, David Norbrook; "authority" in Calvinism - the spirit betwixt scripture andpolity, Robert Weimann; the ass with double vision - politicising an Ancient Greek novel, Edith Hall; Unity Theatre, Colin Chambers; communities - British Theatre in the 1980s, Peter Holland; closet Keynesians - dissidence and theatre, Alan Sinfield; liberty outside the law, Christopher Hill; love of England - patriotism and the making of Victorianism, John Lucas; clash, Maroula Joannou; Massinger, mourner of an unborn past, Victor Kiernan; Marvel, Milton and Trajan's column, Elsie Duncan-Jones; sexuality and intertextuality in Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent, Inga-Stine Ewbank; the end of socialist realism, Andy Croft.
