Cummings, Brian (2017) Shakespeare’s First Folio and the fetish of the book. Cahiers Elisabethains. pp. 50-69. ISSN 2054-4715
Abstract
Prospero’s renunciation of his book in The Tempest acknowledges its power as a kind of ‘fetish’. This essay traces the idea of the book as ‘commodity fetish’ and as material text. The argument examines how post-Marxist thought, in a new reading of Louis Althusser,might be used to challenge the Shakespeare of late capitalism. It suggests how a complex reading of the fetish in historiography, combining a history of the material book in Shakespeare, with a theoretical reading of WilliamPietz, Stephen Greenblatt and Peter Stallybrass, sheds light on the First Folio, one of the most famous – and fetishized – books in history.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, The Author(s). This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | Fetishism ,historiography,material texts,First Folio,Shakespeare,Louis Althusser,post-Marxism |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > English and Related Literature (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2017 11:00 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:27 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:118493 |