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The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading and genre studies, through those that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s that challenged the preconceptions on which traditional liberal humanism is based, including feminism, cultural materialism and new historicism. Perspectives drawn from postcolonial, queer studies and critical race studies, besides more recent critical practices including presentism, ecofeminism and disability all receive detailed treatment.
In addition to its coverage of distinct critical approaches, the handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z glossary of key terms and concepts, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field and a substantial annotated bibliography.
Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1.0 Introduction: Twenty-first-century Shakespeares, Evelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
PART ONE: Foundational Studies
1.1 Close Reading, Kent Cartwright (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
1.2 Genre Studies, Michelle Dowd (University of Alabama, USA)
1.3 Character Studies, Michael Bristol (McGill University, Canada)
PART TWO: Challenges to Traditional Liberal Humanism
2.1 Marxist Studies, Christian Smith (Kingston University, UK)
2.2 New Historicist Studies, Hugh Grady (Arcadia University, USA)
2.3 Cultural Materialist Studies, Christopher Marlow (University of Lincoln, UK)
2.4 Feminist Studies, Jessica McCall (Delaware Valley University, USA)
2.5 Psychoanalytic Studies, Carolyn E. Brown (University of San Francisco, USA)
PART 3: Matters of Difference
3.1 Critical Race Studies, Arthur L. Little, Jr. (UCLA, USA)
3.2 Postcolonial Studies, Ruben Espinosa (University of Texas, El Paso, USA)
3.3 Queer Studies, Anthony Guy Patricia (Concord University, USA)
PART 4: Millennial Directions
4.1 Ecocritical Studies, Randall Martin (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
4.2 Computational Studies, Brett Greatley-Hirsch (University of Leeds, UK)
4.3 Spiritual Studies, Peter Atkinson (Worcester Cathedral, UK)
4.4 Presentist Studies, Miguel Ramalhete Gomes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
4.5 Global Studies, Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)
PART 5: Twenty-first-century Directions
5.1 Disability Studies, Katherine Schaap Williams (NYU Abu Dhabi)
5.2 Ecofeminist Studies, Jennifer Munroe (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) and Rebecca Laroche (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA)
5.3 Posthumanist Studies, Karen Raber (University of Mississippi, USA)
5.4 Cognitive Ethology Studies, Craig Dionne (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
Appendices, Gary Lindeburg, Evelyn Gajowski, and Dorothy Vanderford (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
Timeline of Significant Developments
A-Z Glossary of Key Terms
Annotated Bibliography
Resources for Further Research
Index
