The Tempest and New World-Utopian Politics

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: The Rampant Politicization of Tempest Criticism—and Its Recent Discontents....Pages 3-12
Teaching The Tempest in an American-Adamic Context: The New World Orthodoxy as Multicultural Pedagogy....Pages 13-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Such Maps as Dreams Are Made On: Discourse, Utopian Geography, and The Tempest’s Island....Pages 35-54
Calibans Anonymous: The Journey from Text to Self in Modern Criticism....Pages 55-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
 The Tempest Beyond Post-Colonial Politics: Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller as Topical Retrotext....Pages 71-90
“Any Strange Beast There Makes a Man”: New World Manliness as Old World Kingliness in The Tempest ....Pages 91-111
“Thought Is Free”: The Tempest, Freedom of Expression, and the New World....Pages 113-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Toward a Post-1989 Reading of The Tempest ....Pages 131-157
Conclusion: Readers vs. Text in the Age of Democracy: The Formalist Tempest or Presentist “Tempests”? ....Pages 159-167
Back Matter....Pages 169-192