The Storm at Sea : : Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare /

The Storm at Sea : : Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare / / Christopher Pye.

The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in whi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Pye, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Early Modern Political Aesthetics
  • 2. Leonardo's Hand: Mimesis, Sexuality, and the Polis
  • 3. Shakespeare Distracted: Political Aesthetics from Spanish Tragedy to Hamlet
  • 4. "To throw out our eyes for brave Othello"
  • 5. Aesthetics and Absolutism in Th e Winter's Tale
  • 6. Th e Beating Mind: The Tempest in History
  • 7. Hobbes and the Hydrophobes: The Fate of the Aesthetic in the Time of the State
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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