Description:
The essays in New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains engage a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic theory and criticism, from Freud to the present, to read individual plays closely.
Review Quotes:
"This is a timely volume that will hopefully herald a revival of psychoanalytically oriented inquiry in early modern literary and cultural studies... It might also develop in dialogue with the renewed interest in psychoanalysis happening in para-academic institutions and publications. This book is a welcome contribution to that conversation to come."
--Emily Shortslef, University of Kentucky
"New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains is an important contribution to the literature linking psychoanalytic theory with the works of Shakespeare... In these times of marked, and seemingly irreconcilable divisiveness, the importance of literature in creating unifying platforms through which to appreciate other perspectives cannot be overstated."
--Christopher W. T. Miller, University of Maryland School of Medicine
"New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains makes an impressive entrance onto the ever-changing stage of Shakespeare studies... It is difficult to convey the richness of this collection in the space of a brief review."
--Madelon Sprengnether, University of Minnesota