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MLQ March 2011 kins with their points of departure. Their discussions of the paradigms of monarchy and diplomacy, sovereignty and gender, religious identity, trade relations, and the notion of the foreign deploy a complex historicist approach that has room for ambivalence and tension, both âthenâ and ânow.â Reading the historical archive and Shakespeareâs plays interactively, without reducing one to the other, the authors exemplify new ways of reading both. They make a strong argument in their introduction for a homology between their own epistemological interdisciplinarity and the processes â heterogeneously discursive, political, and economic â whose workings they seek to make visible. They do not feel obliged to agree with each other, but they regard their disagreements with each other and even, on occasion, with themselves as productive of a historicist subjectivity more interested in seeing the conceptual connections between academic âdisciplinary assumptionsâ and âa consensus about an English nationâ (7). If Shakespeareâs plays can establish and police, while also calling into question, the boundaries between English and foreign identities, we might find ourselves asking not âwhoâ is English (or American or European) but how a particular national identity is being constituted and maintained. In how brief a
Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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