Shakespeare and the 99% Literary Studies, the Profession, and the Pr
Through the discursive political lenses of Occupy Wall Street and the 99%, this volume of essays examines the study of Shakespeare and of literature more generally in today’s climate of educational and professional uncertainty. Acknowledging the problemat
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SHARON O’DAIR AND TIMOTHY FRANCISCO
Shakespeare and the 99% “The smartest, most original, and most useful book on Shakespeare and the politics of higher education I have seen in many years. Shakespeare and the 99% shows at once how vital Shakespeare can be for thinking through the structural inequalities of a debt-driven higher education system and how necessary Shakespeare’s work remains to non-elite students, readers, and citizens increasingly alienated from the classrooms of ivy-clad academe. Writing from an unusually wide range of institutional positions and professional conditions, the contributors weave sophisticated theoretical analysis with situated personal detail in ways that neither float upward toward pious abstraction nor descend to the merely anecdotal. The result? An account of Shakespeare’s work, in his world and in ours, that feels genuinely new; a style of criticism living up to the promise of critique and responding to the responsibility of pedagogy and accessibility; and a model for committed humanities scholarship in the twenty-first century.” —Henry S. Turner, Professor of English, Rutgers University, USA “An incisive, invigorating critique of the promise of the humanities following the 2008 financial collapse and the rise of a debt economy, Shakespeare and the 99% offers startling answers to questions of what we can do with Shakespeare and what Shakespeare can do for us: his plays engender and combat political cynicism; they bolster and dismantle the divisions of class, race, and gender structuring higher education today. An avatar for tradition and lever for social mobility, Shakespeare, it turns out, may be our best, last hope for a revitalized and relevant liberal arts.” —Amanda Bailey, Professor of English, University of Maryland, USA “Shakespeare and the 99% offers an engaging, provocative look at the profession and challenges readers to rethink Shakespeare’s place in today’s neoliberal university. An important call to action for Shakespeare studies, the collection challenges us to examine our roles as scholars and pedagogues in the twenty-first century.” —Louise Geddes, Associate Professor of English, Adelphi University, USA
Sharon O’Dair · Timothy Francisco Editors
Shakespeare and the 99% Literary Studies, the Profession, and the Production of Inequity
Editors Sharon O’Dair University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Timothy Francisco Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-03882-3 ISBN 978-3-030-03883-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03883-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018961184 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other p
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