Table of Contents

Preface: A Four Hundred Year Culture War

Introduction: Primitive Accumulation

Chapter One: The Storm of History

Chapter Two: Hostile Takeover, Consolidation and Destabilization

Chapter Three: Crisis, War, Revolution

Chapter Four: Independence

Chapter Five: Overproduction

Chapter Six: Deregulation

Afterword: State of Emergency

About the Author

Originally from Britain, Helen Scott received the BA from the University of Essex and the PhD from Brown University before joining the faculty at the University of Vermont, where her primary area of teaching is global Anglophone literature.

Her research contributes to the materialist presence within postcolonial studies, developing historically informed readings of literary works; her particular areas of specialization are the contemporary transnational novel, Caribbean literature, global appropriations of Shakespeare’s Tempest, and the life and works of Rosa Luxemburg. This work has been published in journals such as Callaloo, Journal of Haitian Studies, New Formations, New Politics, Postcolonial Text, Socialist Studies, and Works and Days, and in several edited collections. She is author of Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence (Ashgate, 2006); editor of The Essential Rosa Luxemburg (Haymarket Books, 2008); and co-editor, with Paul Le Blanc, of an anthology of Luxemburg’s writings, Socialism or Barbarism (Pluto Press, 2010).

Reviews

"Helen Scott's new book offers a brilliantly resourceful, sharply- argued account of Shakespeare's provocative romance and of its reception and influence over more than four centuries. She shows with remarkable insight how the play's original historical and political significance relates to its continuing importance for dramatists, poets, and fiction-writers committed to challenging the injustices of neoliberal capitalism."-- William Keach, Professor Emeritus of English, Brown University"Helen C. Scott has raised our understanding of The Tempest to a new level by revealing the deepest political and economic forces that shaped Shakespeare's original writing of the play and its reception ever after."--Marcus Rediker, co-author of The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic