The Shakespearean novel is undergoing a renaissance as the long prose narrative form becomes reinvigorated through new forms of media such as television, film and the internet. Shakespeare and the Modern Novel explores the history of the novel as a literary form, suggesting that the form can trace its strongest roots beyond the eighteenth-century work of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson to Shakespeare’s plays. Within this collection, well-established Shakespeare critics demonstrate that the diversity and flexibility of interactions between Shakespeare and the modern novel are very much alive.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Introduction
Graham Holderness
Chapter 1. ‘All the World’s a [Post-apocalyptic] Stage’: The Future of Shakespeare in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
Charles Conaway
Chapter 2. Ian Mc Ewan Celebrates Shakespeare: Hamlet in a Nutshell
Elena Bandín and Elisa González
Chapter 3. Modernising Misogyny in Shakespeare’s Shrew
Natalie K. Eschenbaum
Chapter 4. Almost Shakespeare – But Not Quite
Keith Jones
Chapter 5. Canon Fodder and Conscripted Genres: The Hogarth Project and the Modern Shakespeare Novel
Laurie E. Osborne
Chapter 6. Loving Shakespeare: Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl and the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
Elizabeth Rivlin
Chapter 7. Millennial Dark Ladies
Katherine Scheil
Chapter 8. Flights of Fancy and the Dissolution of Shakespearean Space-Time in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus
Kate Myers
Chapter 9. Hamlet’s Displacement as a Recurrent Case in Cather’s A Lost Lady and Al Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land
Tareq Zuhair
Chapter 10. Susan Abulhawa’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Yousef Abu Amrieh
Index
Sobre o autor
Graham Holderness is the author of numerous books on literary criticism, theory and scholarship, as well as fiction, poetry and drama. His most recent works include The Faith of William Shakespeare (Lion Books, 2016), Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film (Bloomsbury, 2014) and the historical fantasy novel Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare Vampire Hunter (Top Hat Books, 2015).