Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture)
ISBN-13:
9781474452533
ISBN-10:
1474452531
Edition:
1
Author:
Virginia Lee Strain
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Format:
Paperback
240 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781474452533
ISBN-10:
1474452531
Edition:
1
Author:
Virginia Lee Strain
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Format:
Paperback
240 pages
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Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture) (ISBN-13: 9781474452533 and ISBN-10: 1474452531), written by authors
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This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser's Faerie Queene, the Gesta Grayorum, Donne's 'Satyre V', and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale, Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character.
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