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Inheritance law and political theology in Shakespeare and Milton : election and grace as constitutional in early modern literature and beyond /
Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of England's early modern crisis, regarding faith in the will of God, to current debates by legal academics on the theory of property and its succession. Vividly treating liter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Theological Will and Human Last Will; Inter-Chapter Theory Signpost #1; 1 Reading for Revelation, Election as Willful Curse, and Grace in the Origins of English Common Law; Part 1: Sons; 2 Hamlet: Elected to Annihilation; 3 Macbeth: Murderous Rivalry over Succession Control; Inheritance of Grace as State of Exception; Inter-Chapter Theory Signpost #2; Part 2: Daughters; 4 Merchant: Portia's Will and the Grace of Forebear-and-Follower Bonds; 5 Tempest: Renouncing the Grip on the Daughter.
- Prospero and Alonzo's Partnership Beyond Last WillsInter-Chapter Theory Signpost #3; Part 3: Republicans; 6 Machiavellian Virtú and Time; 7 Paradise Lost: Satan as Disappointed Second Son; Two Last Wills and "Reason" as Cover for Insistences; Inter-Chapter Theory Signpost #4; Epilogue: A Humanities-Based Approach to Current U.S. Inheritance Law; Bibliography; Index.