LEADER 04411nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910457087303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21169-6 010 $a9786613211699 010 $a0-8122-0220-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202205 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051179 035 $a(OCoLC)759158249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492005 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542282 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11340030 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542282 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10509833 035 $a(PQKB)11012653 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441548 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3201 035 $a(DE-B1597)449078 035 $a(OCoLC)979577698 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202205 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441548 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492005 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321169 035 $a(OCoLC)748533384 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051179 100 $a20080527d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUntimely matter in the time of Shakespeare$b[electronic resource] /$fJonathan Gil Harris 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4118-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-259) and index. 327 $aReading matter : George Herbert and the East-West palimpsests of The temple -- Performing history : East-West palimpsests in William Shakespeare's second Henriad -- The writing on the wall : London's old Jewry and John Stow's urban palimpsest -- The smell of gunpowder : Macbeth and the palimpsests of olfaction -- Touching matters : Margaret Cavendish's and He?le?ne Cixous's palimpsested bodies -- Crumpled handkerchiefs : William Shakespeare's and Michel Serres's palimpsested time. 330 $aSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The New Historicism of the 1980's and early 1990's was preoccupied with the fashioning of early modern subjects. But, Jonathan Gil Harris notes, the pronounced tendency now is to engage with objects. From textiles to stage beards to furniture, objects are read by literary critics as closely as literature used to be. For a growing number of Renaissance and Shakespeare scholars, the play is no longer the thing: the thing is the thing. Curiously, the current wave of "thing studies" has largely avoided posing questions of time. How do we understand time through a thing? What is the time of a thing? In Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, Harris challenges the ways we conventionally understand physical objects and their relation to history. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, Harris considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials. He reveals that many "Renaissance" objects were actually survivals from an older time-the medieval monastic properties that, post-Reformation, were recycled as stage props in the public playhouses, or the old Roman walls of London, still visible in Shakespeare's time. Then, as now, old objects were inherited, recycled, repurposed; they were polytemporal or palimpsested. By treating matter as dynamic and temporally hybrid, Harris addresses objects in their futurity, not just in their encapsulation of the past. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare is a bold study that puts the matériel-the explosive, world-changing potential-back into a "material culture" that has been too often understood as inert stuff. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y1066-1687$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory. 676 $a820.9/003 700 $aHarris$b Jonathan Gil$0592866 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457087303321 996 $aUntimely matter in the time of Shakespeare$92466433 997 $aUNINA