Stanley Cavell's American dream : Shakespeare, philosophy, and Hollywood movies / Lawrence F. Rhu.

Contents: Lost in space or right at home? -- Macbeth and Gaslight : new historicism and feminism -- Beyond adaptation : Walker Percy and Stanley Cavell -- The Green World and general education -- Subject and object -- Now, Voyager -- Temporary idolatry -- The sublime and the pedestrian -- Shame and the origins of a calling -- Milton at the Movies -- Consent -- Common backgrounds -- Emersonian differences -- King Lear in their time -- Stella Dallas and a thousand acres -- Shame, shamelessness, and the uses of Shakespeare -- Stanley Cavell's Renaissance skepticism -- Emerson; or, the skeptic and the perfectionist -- Perfection's heirs -- Sidney and Larkin : a perfectionist reading -- Othello and The Philadelphia Story -- Emerson and receptivity -- North by Northwest and Hamlet -- An epistemology of moods -- Shakespeare, Sturges, and Rohmer -- Remarriage comedy and the myth of the Fall -- The Lady Eve -- Antony and Cleopatra : the withdrawal of the world -- Current and source -- What's the use of calling Shakespeare a pragmatist? -- Coriolanus and Sidney's poetics -- Fred Astaire and racial differences -- The oldest profession.