Burning to Read: Ben Jonson’s Library Fire of 1623

Smyth, Adam

doi:10.1057/9781137367662_3

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“…Jonson commented ironically that the destruction of some books was necessary to allow others, including his own, to flourish. 46 Some books deserve to die, he says. However, as Caliban's practice suggests, the aura surrounding books went beyond their contents.…”

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Shakespeare’s First Folio and the fetish of the book

Cummings

2017

Cahiers Élisabéthains

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Prospero’s renunciation of his book in The Tempest acknowledges its power as a kind of ‘fetish’. This essay traces the idea of the book as ‘commodity fetish’ and as material text. The argument examines how post-Marxist thought, in a new reading of Louis Althusser, might be used to challenge the Shakespeare of late capitalism. It suggests how a complex reading of the fetish in historiography, combining a history of the material book in Shakespeare, with a theoretical reading of William Pietz, Stephen Greenblatt and Peter Stallybrass, sheds light on the First Folio, one of the most famous – and fetishized – books in history.

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Section: Fetishism and The History Of The Bookmentioning

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Shakespeare’s First Folio and the fetish of the book

Cummings

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Burning to Read: Ben Jonson’s Library Fire of 1623

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