Book contents
- The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
- Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture
- The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Shakespearean Sermons and Other Pious Texts
- Chapter 2 The Harmonies and Beauties of Devotional Shakespeare Volumes
- Chapter 3 The Sonnets and the Messiah
- Chapter 4 The Authority of the (Missing) Author
- Chapter 5 Shakespearean Clerisies and Perfect Texts
- Conclusion: Concealed Wonders and Choice Treasures
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Conclusion: Concealed Wonders and Choice Treasures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2020
- The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
- Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture
- The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Shakespearean Sermons and Other Pious Texts
- Chapter 2 The Harmonies and Beauties of Devotional Shakespeare Volumes
- Chapter 3 The Sonnets and the Messiah
- Chapter 4 The Authority of the (Missing) Author
- Chapter 5 Shakespearean Clerisies and Perfect Texts
- Conclusion: Concealed Wonders and Choice Treasures
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
The conclusion to The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare addresses Victorian reading practices in light of various twenty-first-century hermeneutics of sympathy: Eve Sedgwick’s “reparative reading,” Michael Warner’s “uncritical reading,” Rita Felski’s “post-critical reading,” Emma Mason’s “pastoral reading,” Lori Branch’s “post-secular studies,” and so forth.It urges that professional literary studies might do well to view devotional Victorian responses to Shakespeare with greater sympathy than we have to this point, that such sympathy may be, after all, closer to the heart of our collective mission.
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- The Victorian Cult of ShakespeareBardology in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 146 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020