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English

Eric Spencer

Eric V. Spencer

Eric Spencer

My intellectual interests, when I can focus them at all, cluster around anthropological and philosophical approaches to literature, especially Shakespeare.

Published Articles and Reviews

  • “Taking Excess, Exceeding Account: Aristotle Meets The Merchant of Venice.” In Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism. Ed. Linda Woodbridge. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003. 143-158.
  • “A Commodity of Good Names: Rhetoric, Debt, and Charisma in Henry IV, Part I.” New Comparison 35-36: Spring/Autumn 2003. 38-53.
  • Review of Ned Lukacher, Daemonic Figures: Shakespeare and the Question of Conscience. Philosophy and Literature. April, 1996.

Conference Presentations

  • “Trying Hermione: Evidence and Equity in The Winter’s Tale” presented to Shakespeare Association of America seminar “Staging Justice” in Philadelphia (April 2006).
  • “Tapsters and Talking Birds: Repetition, Rhetoric, and Accumulation in Henry IV” Shakespeare Association of America seminar “Repetitio,” New Orleans (2004).
  • “The Deputy Scaled: (Groping) Toward a Theory of Shakespearean Commensuration.” SAA seminar “Commodities and Commodification” Victoria, BC (2003)
  • “Aristotle Meets The Merchant of Venice.” SAA seminar “New Economic Criticism.” Miami (2001).
  • “Promising and Paying in I Henry IV.” International Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association, “Money.” Swansea, Wales (2000).
  • “ ‘Like an Old Tale Still’: Skepticism and Excess in The Winter’s Tale,” SAA seminar “Shakespeare and Skepticism,” Cleveland (1998).