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Class, critics, and Shakespeare

Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars

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An edition of Class, critics, and Shakespeare (2001)

Class, critics, and Shakespeare

Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars

"Class, Critics and Shakespeare is a challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots, providing a provocative contribution to "the culture wars." It engages with an ongoing debate about literary canons and the democratization of literary study and higher education in general."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
176

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Class, critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars
2001, University of Michigan Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-159) and index.

Published in
Ann Arbor

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822.3/3
Library of Congress
PR2970 .O34 2000, PR2970.O34 2000, PR 2970 O34 2000

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
viii, 166 p. ;
Number of pages
176

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6776537M
Internet Archive
classcriticsshak0000odai
ISBN 10
0472067541
ISBN 13
9780472097548
LCCN
00009805
OCLC/WorldCat
44313246
Library Thing
2174222
Goodreads
2795266
1018937

Work Description

Class, Critics, and Shakespeare is a provocative contribution to "the culture wars." It engages with an ongoing debate about literary canons, the democratization of literary study, and of higher education in general.

For a generation at least, academic readings of literary works, including those of Shakespeare, have often challenged privilege based on race, gender, and sexuality. Sharon O'Dair observes that in these same readings, class privilege has remained effectively unchallenged, despite repeated invocations of it within multiculturalism. She identifies what she sees as a structurally necessary class bias in academic literary and cultural criticism, specifically in the contemporary reception of William Shakespeare's plays.

The author builds her argument by offering readings of Shakespeare that put class at the center of the analysis—not just in Shakespeare's plays or in early modern England, but in the academy and in American society today. Individual chapters focus on The Tempest and education, Timon of Athens and capitalism, Coriolanus and political representation. Other chapters treat the politics of cultural tourism and land-use in the Pacific northwest, and analyze the politics of the academic left in the U.S. today, focusing on the debate between what has been called a "social" left and a "cultural" left.

The author's quest is to understand why an intellectual culture that values diversity and pluralism can so easily disdain and ignore the working-class people she grew up with. Her provocative and heartfelt critique of academic culture will challenge and enlighten a broad range of audiences, including those in cultural studies, American studies, literary criticism, and early modern literature.

Sharon O'Dair is Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama. (Provided by publisher's site:http://www.press.umich.edu/)

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