Taking Exception to the Law : Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature

Beecher, Don (EDT); Decook, Travis (EDT); Wallace, Andrew (EDT); Williams, Grant (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1442642017 / ISBN 13: 9781442642010

Editore: University of Toronto Press, 2015

Codice articolo 9638609-n

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Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal of legal questions in order to understand how literature operated in the early modern period.

Justice in its many forms – legal, poetic, divine, natural, and customary – is examined through insightful and innovative analyses of a number of texts, including The Merchant of Venice, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost. A major contribution to the growing field of law and literature, this collection offers cultural contexts, interpretive insights, and formal implications for the entire field of English Renaissance culture.

Informazioni sugli autori: Donald Beecher is a professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. Travis DeCook is an associate professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. Andrew Wallace is an associate professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. Grant Williams is an associate professor in the Department of English at Carleton University.

By Don Beecher

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Titolo: Taking Exception to the Law : Materializing ...
Casa editrice: University of Toronto Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
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