Law and empire in English Renaissance literature /

Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. In this insightful and ambitious study, Brian Lockey analyses how such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney helped develop new legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of rom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lockey, Brian, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Temas:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Law in literature.
Renaissance > England.
Imperialism in literature.
Law and literature > History > 16th century.
Law and literature > History > 17th century.
Droit dans la littérature.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Droit et littérature > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Droit et littérature > Histoire > 17e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern.
Law and literature.
Renaissance.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Romance and the ethics of expansion; CHAPTER 1 Transnational justice and the genre of romance; CHAPTER 2 Natural law and charitable intervention in Sir Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia; CHAPTER 3 Natural Law and corrupt lawyers: Riche, Roberts, Johnson, and Warner; CHAPTER 4 Spenser's legalization of the Irish Conquest; CHAPTER 5 Historical contexts: common law, natural law, civil law; CHAPTER 6 Roman Conquest and English legal identity in Cymbeline.

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