Overview

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From providential apocalypticism to climate change, this ground-breaking ecocritical study traces the performance history of the storm scene in King Lear to explore our shifting, fraught and deeply ideological relationship with stormy weather across time. This Contentious Storm offers a new ecocritical reading of Shakespeare’s classic play, illustrating how the storm has been read as a sign of the providential, cosmological, meteorological, psychological, neurological, emotional, political, sublime, maternal, feminine, heroic and chaotic at different points in history. The big ecocritical history charted here reveals the unstable significance of the weather and mobilises details of the play’s dramatic narrative to figure the weather as a force within self, society and planet.

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Author:   Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton (New York University, Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.531kg
ISBN:  

9781474289047

ISBN 10:   1474289045
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Prologue: The Plot Introduction: The Case for King Lear Part 1 - Ecocriticism Chapter 1: Meteorological Reading Chapter 2: ‘What is the cause of thunder?’: The Storm’s Three Ambiguities Chapter 3: Cataclysmic Shame: Three Views of Lear’s Mortal Body in the Storm Part 2 – Performance History Chapter 4: Ecocritical Big History Chapter 5: The Spectacular Jacobean Theatre Chapter 6: Storms of Fortune: Industrial Technology and Nahum Tate, c.1680-c.1900 Chapter 7: Lear’s Head: The Rise of the Psychological Metaphor, 1908-1955. Chapter 8: Towards the Flood, 1962-2016 Epilogue: The Art of Necessity Bibliography

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The Contentious Storm provides a wonderfully fresh, sane and lucid view of King Lear in conception, context, and performance. Jennifer Mae Hamilton makes the famous storm scene a touchstone that reveals the power and the flaws of ecocritical, political, and post-structuralist perspectives over the centuries. Her judgements, based in scrupulous research, are wisely measured, and her writing has an unassuming clarity and unforced grace that is all too rare in high-level scholarship. Robert N. Watson, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Author Information

Jennifer Mae Hamilton is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, funded by The Seed Box: A MISTRA+FORMAS Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, Linköping University, Sweden. She also lectures in ecocriticism at New York University, Sydney

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