Harold Bloom's Shakespeare

CHRISTY DESMET teaches Shakespeare, Rhetoric, and early modern literature at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Reading Shakepeare's Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity (University of Massachusetts Press, 1992). With Robert Sawyer, she has edited Shakespeare and Appropriation (Routledge, 1999). ROBERT SAWYER is a Robert E. Park Fellow at the University of Georgia where he teaches Victorian literature and Shakespeare. He is co-editor with Christy Desmet of Shakespeare and Appropriation (Routledge, 1999) and he has published recently on Shakespearean representations in folk art.

"The essays run the gamut of present-day critical studies..." - Library Journal

• PART I: BARDOLATRY/ BARDOGRAPHY 'Harold Bloom's Shakespeare'; J.L. Halio 'Bloom With A View'; T. Hawkes 'The Case for Bardolatry: Harold Bloom Rescues Shakespeare from the Critics'; W.W. Kerrigan 'Bloom, Bardolatry, and Characterolatry'; R. Levin 'The Singularity of Shakespeare (and Middleton)'; G. Taylor PART II: READING AND WRITING SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTER 'Inventing Us'; H. Kenner 'On the Value of Being a Cartoon, in Literature and in Life'; S. O'Dair 'The Play's The Thing': Shakespeare's Critique of Character (and Harold Bloom)'; W. R. Morse 'This Dotage of Our General's': Reading Bloom Reading Shakespeare'; M. Fahmi 'Peace, I Will Stop Your Mouth': Insights and Absences in Harold Bloom's Understanding of Shakespeare's Lovers'; H. Weil PART III: THE ANXIETIES OF INFLUENCE 'Romanticism and its Discontents'; E. Pechter 'Looking for Mr. Goodbard: Swinburne, Sodomy, and the Invention of Bloom'; R. Sawyer 'Bloom on Race and Ethnicity: Shakespeare and the Invention of the European'; J. R. Andreas, Sr. 'Shakespeare in a Different Place: Bloom and Contemporary Women's Writing'; C. Cakebread PART IV: SHAKESPEARE AS CULTURAL CAPITAL Harold Bloom as Shakespearean Pedagogue'; C. Desmet 'King Lear in their Time: On Bloom and Cavell on Shakespeare'; L.F. Rhu 'This Shakespeare Will Not Do': Harold Bloom and the Literary Canon'; D. M. Schiller 'The 2% Solution'; L. Charnes