Spenser's legal language : law and poetry in early modern England /

This volume explores Spenser's linguistic experimentation and his engagement with political, and particularly legal, thought and language in his major works, demonstrating by thorough lexical analysis and illustrative readings how Spenser figured the nation both descriptively and prescriptively...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zurcher, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2007.
Colección:Studies in Renaissance literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) ; v. 23.
Temas:
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Criticism and interpretation.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Knowledge > Law.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > analys och tolkning.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > och språk.
1500-1599
Law in literature.
Law and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Droit dans la littérature.
Droit et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Law.
Law and literature.
Engelsk poesi > historia > 1500-talet.
Juridik och litteratur.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Reading Spenser's language
  • 'Pleasing analysis': Renaissance hermeneutics, poetry and the law
  • Results: A survey of Spenser's legal diction
  • Property and contract in the quests of Florimell and Amoret
  • Justice, equity and mercy in The legend of Artegall
  • Courtesy and prerogative in The legend of Sir Calidore
  • The composition of the world: Managing power in the Two cantos of mutabilitie
  • Lyric opposition in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne
  • After words.

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