The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies

Part I. Tarrying with the Subjunctive, an Introduction

1. Tarrying with the Subjunctive, an Introduction
Paul Cefalu, Bryan Reynolds

Part I. New Formalisms and Cognitivism

2. A Paltry ‘Hoop of Gold’: Semantics and Systematicity in Early Modern Studies
F. Elizabeth Hart

3. If: Lear’s Feather and the Staging of Science
Amy Cook

4. Ghosting the Subjunctive: Perceptual Technics in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and Transversal (New) Media
Jen Boyle

5. What was Pastoral (Again)? More Versions
Julian Yates

Part II. Political Theology and the Religious Turn

6. Invitation to a Totem Meal: Hans Kelsen, Carl Schmitt, and Political Theology
Julia Reinhard Lupton

7. The Marlovian Sublime: Imagination and the Problem of Political Theology
Graham Hammill

8. Humanism and the Resistance to Theology
William N. West

9. ‘Grace to boot’: St. Paul, Messianic Time, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Ken Jackson

10. ‘Loves Best Habit’: Eros, Agape, and the Psychotheology of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Gary Kuchar

Part III. Rematerialisms

11. Against Materialism in Literary Theory
David Hawkes

12. Performativity of the Court: Stuart Masque as Postdramatic Theater
Jerzy Limon

13. Shakespeare, Idealism, and Universals: The Significance of Recent Work on the Mind
Gabriel Egan

14. Theater and the Scriptural Economy in Doctor Faustus
Ian Munro

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, History of Science, Modern History, British and Irish Literature, Political History