{"product_id":"shakespeare-authority-sexuality-alan-sinfield-9780415402361","title":"Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShakespeare, Authority, Sexuality\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument and as it informs particular works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially in relation to sexuality in early-modern England and queer theory. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book has several interlocking preoccupations: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003etheories of textuality and reading \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe political location of Shakespearean plays and the organisation of literary culture today \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe operation of state power in the early-modern period and the scope for dissidence \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe sex\/gender system in that period and the application of queer theory in history. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese preoccupations are explored in and around a range of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Throughout the book Sinfield re-presents cultural materialism, framing it not as a set of propositions, as has often been done, but as a cluster of unresolved problems. His brilliant, lucid and committed readings demonstrate that the 'unfinished business' of cultural materialism - and Sinfield's work in particular - will long continue to produce new questions and challenges for the fields of Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Sinfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415402360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415402361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.54w x 0.53d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alan Sinfield","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072290779391,"sku":"9780415402361","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7ef6dcde-23ef-4df3-bbfe-9717f951fa28.jpg?v=1685441078","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeare-authority-sexuality-alan-sinfield-9780415402361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}