Thomas Dabbs speaks with Peter Herman of San Diego State University about his new book, 'Early Modern Others' and also about Peter’s work on literature and terrorism.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:19 - Early Modern Others: pushing back against wokeness
00:09:00 - Class, diversity, colonialism, slavery
00:16:38 - Thomas More, Utopia, and the New World
00:20:00 - The danger of exporting technology
00:23:50 - Taming shrews, empowerment
00:31:10 - Abuse, sexism, and racism in Shakespeare: uncertainties
00:40:11 - Class struggle in Deloney and Dekker
00:47:10 - A Midsummer Night’s Dream and dissonance
00:53:00 - Deloney as ballad writer and fugitive
00:58:18 - Religious tolerance in the early-modern period
01:04:10 - London’s Africans
01:08:56 - The benefits of EEBO
01:14:54 - Terrorism and Literature
01:25:09 - Religion and empire
01:38:40 - Flexibility in scholarship
01:43:43 - Closing remarks
17 авг 2024