Literature, politics, theory: the Essex symposia
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This book presents advanced research by people working in the field of a critical theory of literature which sets its work in the prevailing political and historical context and applies it to the re-reading of literary and cultural texts. Included in the topics covered in this volume, one of a series, are the historical ground between "Richard II" and "Henry V", poetics versus materialism in the Renaissance and the place of AIDS and plagues in history.