Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1474416292
ISBN-13
9781474416290
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 31st, 2018
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
492 grams
Dimensions
16.50 x 24.10 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Legal history
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This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century.
This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law''s own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser''s Faerie Queene, the Gesta Grayorum, Donne''s ''Satyre V'', and Shakespeare''s Measure for Measure and The Winter''s Tale, Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character.
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