Karen Raber
Shakespeare
and Posthumanist Theory
London/New Dely/New York/ Sidney: Bloomsbury Group, 2018,
216 pp.
ISBN:9781474234436
Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theorycharts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption
that the category human is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in
discussions of the playwright’s work. Drawing on a variety of methodologies –
cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new
materialisms – the volume investigates the world of Shakespeare’s plays and
poems in order to represent more thoroughly its variety, its ethics of
inclusion, and its resistance to human triumphalism and exceptionalism.
Chapter
1: We Have Never Been Humanist: Genealogies of Posthumanism
Chapter 2: Posthuman Cosmography
Chapter 3: Bodies and Minds
Chapter 4: Neither Fish nor Fowl
Chapter 5: TechnoBard
Chapter 6: Post-posthumanism? Back to the Future
Notes
Bibliography
Index
