The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies

Tarrying with the Subjunctive, an Introduction; P.Cefalu & B.Reynolds PART I: NEW FORMALISMS AND COGNITIVISM A Paltry 'Hoop of Gold': Semantics and Systematicity in Early Modern Studies; F.E.Hart If: Lear's Feather and the Staging of Science; A.Cook Ghosting the Subjunctive: Perceptual Technics in Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year and Transversal (New) Media; J.Boyle What was Pastoral (Again)? More Versions; J.Yates PART I: POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE RELIGIOUS TURN Introduction to a Totem Meal: Hans Kelsen, Carl Schmitt and Political Theology; J.Reinhard Lupton The Marlovian Sublime: Imagination and the Problem of Political Theology; G.Hammill Humanism and the Resistance to Theology; W.West 'Grace to Boot': St. Paul, Messianic Time, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale ; K.Jackson 'Love's Best Habit': Eros, Agape and the Psychotheology of Shakespeare's Sonnets; G.Kuchar PART III: REMATERIALISMS Against Materialism in Literary Theory; D.Hawkes Performativity of the Court: Stuart Masque as Postdramatic Theatre; J.Limon 'Shakespeare, Idealism, and Universals: The Significance of Recent work on the Mind'; G.Egan Theater and the Scriptural Economy in Doctor Faustus ; I.Munro Index