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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harries, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946.

Keynes, John Maynard.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Physical Description:

viii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.

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.

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

The 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 The 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

The 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

The Last Scare Quote 173

Ends of the Scare Quote 181

Last Words on Witchcraft 183.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0804736219

OCLC:

43758033