001477891 000__ 05693nam\a22007815i\4500 001477891 001__ 1477891 001477891 003__ DE-B1597 001477891 005__ 20231026034834.0 001477891 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477891 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477891 008__ 230103t20222010nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477891 020__ $$a9780823292691 001477891 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823292691$$2doi 001477891 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)565906 001477891 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306539761 001477891 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477891 0410_ $$aeng 001477891 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477891 072_7 $$aLIT004120$$2bisacsh 001477891 1001_ $$aSun, Emily, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477891 24510 $$aSucceeding King Lear :$$bLiterature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics /$$cEmily Sun. 001477891 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477891 264_4 $$c©2010 001477891 300__ $$a1 online resource (176 p.) :$$b7 Illustrations, black and white 001477891 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477891 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477891 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477891 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477891 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tI. Shakespeare -- $$t1. Sovereignty, Exposure, Theater: A Reading of King Lear -- $$tII. Wordsworth -- $$t2. Wordsworth on the Heath: Tragedy, Autobiography, and the Revolutionary Spectator -- $$t3. Poetry against Indifference: Responding to ''The Discharged Soldier'' -- $$tIII. Agee and Evans -- $$t4. From the Division of Labor to the Discovery of the Common: James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex 001477891 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477891 520__ $$aThis book investigates Shakespeare's King Lear and its originative power in modern literature with specific attention to the early work of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and to the American writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans's 1941 collaboration, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. It examines how these later readers return to the play to interrogate emphatically the question of the relations between literature and politics in modernity and to initiate in this way their own creative trajectories. King Lear opens up a literary genealogy or history of successors, at the heart and origin of which, the author claims, is a crisis of sovereignty. The tragedy famously begins with the title character's decision to give up his throne and divide the kingdom prior to his demise. In bringing to light the assumptions behind this logic, and in dramatizing its disastrous consequences, the play performs an implicit analysis and critique of sovereignty as the guiding principle of political life and gestures, beyond sovereignty, towards the possibility of a new aesthetic and political future. The question of the relations between literature and politics does not only open up immanently or internally within King Lear, this book argues, but is also that which occasions a literary history of readers who return to the play as to an originary locus for dealing with a problem. Among such successors are Wordsworth in the 1790s after the French Revolution and Agee and Evans during the Depression in the 1930s, whose engagements with Lear, this book argues, were crucial to their development of new artistic means towards creating a democratic literature. In bringing British Romanticism and American modernism into contact with their literary political origins in Shakespeare, this book offers an original way of thinking literary history and a new approach to the question of the relations between literature and politics in modernity. In its interdisciplinary and cross-period scope, it will appeal to students and scholars of Shakespeare, Romanticism, modernism, literary theory, as well as literature and photography. 001477891 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477891 546__ $$aIn English. 001477891 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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