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Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature


ISBN13: 9781474416290
Published: March 2018
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: Scotland
Format: Hardback
Price: £75.00
Paperback edition , ISBN13 9781474452533



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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.

Key Features:-

  • Reevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works
  • Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studies
  • Analyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency

Subjects:
Legal History, Law and Literature
Contents:
Introduction
1. ‘Perpetuall Reformation’ in Book V of The Faerie Queene
Part I: Perfection
2. Snaring Statutes and the General Pardon in the Gesta Grayorum
3. Legal Excess in John Donne’s ‘Satyre V’
Part II: Execution
4. The Assize Circuitry of Measure for Measure
5. The Winter’s Tale and the Oracle of the Law
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