Imagining world order : literature and international law in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 /

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"In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tang, Chenxi, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
1500-1799
Law in literature.
International relations in literature.
European literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
European literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
International law > History.
Droit dans la littérature.
Relations internationales dans la littérature.
Littérature européenne > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Droit international > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
HISTORY > Modern > 16th Century.
European literature.
International law.
Law and literature, international law, world order, early modern Europe, Shakespeare, Goethe, Marlowe, Barclay, Lohenstein, Anton Ulrich, Defoe, Sterne, Wieland, Camoes, comparative literature, sixteenth century, eighteenth century, seventeenth century, intellectual history.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The old world order dissolving
  • The poetics of international legal order
  • International order as tragedy
  • International order as romance
  • The divergence between international law and literature around 1700
  • The novel and international order in the eighteenth century.

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