LEADER 03451oam 2200625zu 450 001 9910495962503321 005 20210803232654.0 010 $a0-520-91181-4 010 $a0-585-18433-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520911819 035 $a(CKB)111057870441136 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000153784 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12003382 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153784 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10413342 035 $a(PQKB)11700273 035 $a(DE-B1597)647705 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520911819 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111057870441136 100 $a20160829d1992 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFaultlines : cultural materialism and the politics of dissident reading 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cUniversity of California Press$d1992 215 $a1 online resource (380 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-07607-9 311 $a0-520-07606-0 330 $aIf we come to consciousness within a language that is complicit with the social order, how can we conceive, let alone organize, resistance to that social order? This key question in the politics of reading and subcultural practice informs Alan Sinfield's book on writing in early-modern England.New historicism has often shown people trapped in a web of language and culture. In lively discussions of writings by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney, and Donne, Sinfield reassesses the scope of dissidence and control. The early-modern state, Christianity, and the cultural apparatus, despite an ideology of unity and explicit violence, could not but allow space to challenging voices. Sinfield shows that disruptions in concepts of hierarchy, nationality, gender, and sexuality force their way into literary texts.Sinfield is often provocative. He "rewrites" Julius Caesar to produce a different politics, compares Sidney's idea of poetry to Leonid Brezhnev's, and reinstates the concept of character in the face of post-structuralist theory. He keeps the current politics of literary study in view, especially in a substantial chapter on Shakespeare in the U.S. Sinfield subjects interactions between class, ethnicity, sexuality, and the professional structures of the humanities to a detailed and hard-hitting critique, and argues for new commitments to collectivities and subcultures. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$zGreat Britain 606 $aPolitics and literature$xHistory$y16th century$zGreat Britain 606 $aPolitics and literature$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aPolitical plays, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSocial problems in literature 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical plays, English$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aSocial problems in literature 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aEnglish Literature 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 676 $a820.9/003 700 $aSinfield$b Alan$0132436 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495962503321 996 $aFaultlines$9220914 997 $aUNINA