Research Catalog

Title

Scare quotes from Shakespeare : Marx, Keynes, and the language of reenchantment / Martin Harries.

Author

Harries, Martin

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

viii, 209 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This book argues that moments of allusion to the supernatural in Shakespeare are occasions where Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes register the perseverance of haunted structures in modern culture. This "reenchantment," at the heart of modernity and of literary and political works central to our understanding of modernity, is the focus of this book. The author shows that allusion to supernatural moments in Shakespeare ("scare quotes") allows writers to both acknowledge and distance themselves from the supernatural phenomena that challenge their disenchanted understanding of the social world. He also uses these modern appropriations of Shakespeare as provocations to reread some of his works, notably Hamlet and Macbeth."--Jacket.

Subject

• Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
• Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Influence
• Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946
• Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Keynes, John Maynard 1883-1946
• Marx, Karl 1818-1883
• Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
• Marx, Karl
• Shakespeare, William
• Keynes, John Maynard
• Macbeth
• Hamlet
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Rezeption
• Supernatural

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-203) and index.

Contents

Part I. Phantasmagoria -- 1 Henry Dircks, Inventor of Pepper's Ghost 23 -- Carlyle and the Impossibility of Reenchantment 23 -- Spiritualism and the Dircksian Phantasmagoria 27 -- Ghost on Stage and the Disappearance of Henry Dircks 37 -- Pepper's Ghost, and Shakespeare's 41 -- 2 Homo Alludens: Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire 54 -- From Magic to Marx 54 -- Smells Like World Spirit: Allusion, Revision, Farce 57 -- Ghosts in The German Ideology and The Eighteenth Brumaire 71 -- Translations of the Mole 79 -- Ghosts and Contradiction 89 -- 3 Ghost of Hamlet in the Mine 93 -- Mining Terms in Hamlet 98 -- Replication 106 -- "Shakspearized," or, Back to the Brumaire 116 -- Part II. Witchcraft and History -- 4 John Maynard Keynes and Reenchantment 125 -- Productivity, Productivity, Productivity 125 -- Quotation and Haunted Spheres of Influence 132 -- Keynes's Macbeth 141 -- Fantasy of Deferred History 150 -- 5 Macbeth, Scare Quotes, and Supernatural History 157 -- James and the "Horrid Sphere" of Witchcraft 157 -- Seeds, Second Nature, Camouflage 162 -- Last Scare Quote 173 -- Ends of the Scare Quote 181 -- Last Words on Witchcraft 183.

ISBN

• 0804736219
• 9780804736213

LCCN

00020696

OCLC

• ocm43758033
• 43758033
• SCSB-1142532

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library