{"product_id":"queering-early-modern-death-in-england-figuration-representation-and-matter-9781350458642","title":"Queering Early Modern Death in England: Figuration, Representation, and Matter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat does queer death have to do with early modern England? This collection interrogates the profoundly queer, strange, excessive, camp and uncanny dimensions of death in early modern English literary, theatrical, and material archives.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors provide new insights on death by using the analytic tools of queer theory, via non-binary analyses of gender, sexuality, humanity, nature, embodiment, and temporality. Turning queer analysis to questions of death allows it to be understood as non-dualist, non-linear, a-teleological, and fruitfully muddled. The essays illuminate early modern experiences before the ascendancy of Cartesian dualism occluded alternative understandings of death. They also speak to a present and a future where many received paradigms no longer hold. Key dramatic texts from the early modern period, including \u003ci\u003eThe Duchess of Malfi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Alchemist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, show the expansive possibilities of death and dying in a queer mode. Further essays consider queer dimensions of death in lyric poetry, animal husbandry, typology, and Shakespearean authorship. These approaches make clear why readers interested in queerness and death should immerse themselves in the cultural life of sixteenth and seventeenth century England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Shohet\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English, Villanova University, USA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristine Varnado\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arden Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51720893137170,"sku":"9781350458642","price":120.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_254eb621-a2d6-46d9-9ac0-e1c282b8dc1b.jpg?v=1762940745","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/queering-early-modern-death-in-england-figuration-representation-and-matter-9781350458642","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}