Overview

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.

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Author:   Graham Holderness
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805397014

ISBN 10:   180539701
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   01 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction: Shakespeare and the Modern Novel 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 McEwan 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

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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).

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