{"product_id":"how-to-do-things-with-dead-people-history-technology-and-temporality-from-shakespeare-to-warhol-9781501763656","title":"How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Do Things with Dead People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead.\u003c\/b\u003e Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare's English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed. Considering the plays in these terms exposes their affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting with dead things--technologies such as literary doppelgängers, photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, glitch art, capital punishment machines, and cloning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy situating Shakespeare's historical drama in this intermedial conversation, Dailey challenges conventional assumptions about what constitutes the context of a work of art and contests foundational models of linear temporality that inform long-standing conceptions of historical periodization and teleological order. Working from an eclectic body of theories, pictures, and machines that transcend time and media, Dailey composes a searching exploration of how the living use the dead to think back and look forward, to rule, to love, to wish and create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Dailey is Professor of English at Villanova University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382965440786,"sku":"9781501763656","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_561e885f-e79f-47a9-87f5-7981f289a251.jpg?v=1728774830","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-do-things-with-dead-people-history-technology-and-temporality-from-shakespeare-to-warhol-9781501763656","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}