The Tempest and New World-Utopian Politics

Part I. The New World Tempest Orthodoxy as Multicultural Pedagogy

1. Introduction: The Rampant Politicization of Tempest Criticism—and Its Recent Discontents
Frank W. Brevik

2. Teaching The Tempest in an American-Adamic Context: The New World Orthodoxy as Multicultural Pedagogy
Frank W. Brevik

Part II. “Text” versus “Context” in Post-Second World War Criticism

3. Such Maps as Dreams Are Made On: Discourse, Utopian Geography, and The Tempest’s Island
Frank W. Brevik

4. Calibans Anonymous: The Journey from Text to Self in Modern Criticism
Frank W. Brevik

Part III. Subversive American Adams and Anarchic Utopists

5.
The Tempest Beyond Post-Colonial Politics: Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller as Topical Retrotext
Frank W. Brevik

6. “Any Strange Beast There Makes a Man”: New World Manliness as Old World Kingliness in The Tempest

Frank W. Brevik

7. “Thought Is Free”: The Tempest, Freedom of Expression, and the New World
Frank W. Brevik

Part IV. Post-Communist Topicalities

8. Toward a Post-1989 Reading of The Tempest

Frank W. Brevik

9. Conclusion: Readers vs. Text in the Age of Democracy: The Formalist Tempest or Presentist “Tempests”?

Frank W. Brevik

Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature, Political Theory, Literary History