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Author:

Miller, Nichole E., author.

Title:

Violence and grace : exceptional life between Shakespeare and modernity / Nichole E. Miller.

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 245 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--England--History--16th century.
Violence in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Political science--Philosophy--20th century.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
Political science--Philosophy.
Politics and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Violence in literature.
England.
Drama.
Englisch.
Gewalt.
Erotik.
Rezeption.
Politische Theologie.
1500 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Last words : the stakes of reading/Political Life. The sexual politics of pain : Hannah Arendt meets Shakespeare's shrew -- Undead letters : reading the relic between Marlowe and Kantorowicz -- The revenger's decision : exceptional law between Middleton and Schmitt -- Sacred life and sacrificial economy : Coriolanus in no-man's-land -- The aesthetics of messianic time : gravity and grace in King Lear -- Paul's call; Cymbeline's calling -- Last words : the stakes of reading/Political Life.

Series:

Rethinking the Early Modern

ISBN:

9780810168084 (ebook)
0810168081 (ebook)
0810130149 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780810130142 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)879583812

LCCN:

2014033199

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)