
Histories of the Future
On Shakespeare and Thinking Ahead
By: Carla Mazzio (Editor)
Hardcover | 10 October 2024
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What early modern and Shakespeare studies have to offer contemporary thinking about the future
What do early modern and Shakespeare studies have to offer contemporary thinking about the future? Joining a series of urgent conversations about "the future" as an object of analysis and theorization in early modern history, art history, literature, science, theology, and law, Histories of the Future addresses this question directly. This volume brings together essays that draw on early modern modes of "thinking ahead" to reconsider the ways in which the teaching and reading of Shakespeare help shape how one imagines the future from the vantage point of today.
By stressing the importance of understanding how future-oriented thinking in the past informs perceptions of possibility in the present-with special attention to contemporary issues of climate change, economic inequality, race and indigeneity, queer lives, physical and mental health crises, academic precarity, conditions of scholarly labor, and the ongoing disastrous effects of settler colonialism-Histories of the Future contributes to a rich and expanding field of scholarship on temporality in pre- and early modern literatures and cultures. In the process, it also engages with key insights of twenty-first-century critical and cultural theory in reexamining historical issues ranging from the imagined inevitability of progress or apocalypse to fraught conditions of succession, chronology, catastrophe, influence, prophecy, and risk.
With essays by J. K. Barret, Urvashi Chakravarty, Drew Daniel, John Garrison, Margreta de Grazia, Jean E. Howard, Jeffrey Masten, Marissa Nicosia, Vimala Pasupathi, Kathryn Vomero Santos, and Scott Manning Stevens, Histories of the Future explores the possibilities and limits of early modern futures for "thinking ahead" today.
Industry Reviews
"This timely intervention into current debates surrounding historicism and presentism aims to critique 'methodologies of pastness,' to point out the ideologies that underpin them, and to critique discourses of futurity that curtail possible futures for others." * Sujata Iyengar, author of Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color and Race in Early Modern England *
ISBN: 9781512825282
ISBN-10: 151282528X
Published: 10th October 2024
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24
Weight (kg): 0.61
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- Non-FictionLiterature, Poetry & PlaysHistory & Criticism of LiteratureLiterary Studies of Plays & PlaywrightsShakespeare Studies & Criticism
- Non-FictionSociety & CultureSocial Issues & ProcessesSocial Forecasting
- Non-FictionLiterature, Poetry & PlaysHistory & Criticism of LiteratureGeneral Literary StudiesLiterary Studies from 1500 to 1800