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This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literary interpretation to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England.

Über den Autor

Lorna Hutson is Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Educated in San Francisco, Edinburgh, and Oxford, she has taught at the Universities of St Andrews, UC Berkeley, Hull, and Queen Mary, London. She has served as Head of English at St Andrews (2008-11) and has held fellowships from the Folger, the Huntingdon, the Guggenheim, and the Leverhulme Trust. Her books include Thomas Nashe in Context (1989), The Usurer's Daughter (1994), and The Invention of Suspicion (2007). Circumstantial Shakespeare (2015) was based on the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures in 2012. She has also edited Ben Jonson's Discoveries (1641) for the Cambridge Complete Works of Ben Jonson (2012) and written numerous articles on Renaissance topics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Law, Literature and History

Part I. Textual and Interpretative Culture

1: Kathy Eden: Forensic Rhetoric and Humanist Education

2: Margaret McGlynn: Idiosyncratic Books and Common Learning: Readings on Statutes at the Inns of Court'

3: Ian Williams: Common Law Scholarship and the Written Word

4: James McBain: 'Attentive Mindes and Serious Wits': Legal Training and Early Drama

5: Quentin Skinner: Why Shylocke Loses his Case: Judicial Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice

Part II. Literature and the Legal Profession, 1500-1700

6: Jessica Winston: Legal Satire and the Legal Profession in the 1590s: John Davies' Epigrammes and Professional Decorum

7: Peter Goodrich: The Emblem Book and Common Law

8: Paul Raffield: The Monarchical Republic: Constitutionality and the Legal Profession

9: Martin Butler: The Legal Masque: Humanity and Liberty at the Inns of Court

10: Christopher Brooks: Paradise Lost? Law, Literature, and History in Restoration England

Part III. Administering the Law

11: James Sharpe: Law Enforcement and the Local Community

12: Norma Landau: The Changing Persona of the Justices and their Quarter Sessions

13: Barbara Shapiro: Law and the Evidentiary Environment

14: Virginia Strain: Legal Reform and 2 Henry IV

Part IV. Temporal and Spiritual, Law and Conscience

15: Joshua P. Phillips: Immunities and Monasticism: Bale to Shakespeare

16: Alan Cromartie: Epieikeia and Conscience

17: Ethan Shagan: The Ecclesiastical Polity

18: Jason Rosenblatt: Making Law and Recording It: John Selden on Excommunication

19: Elliott Visconsi: Seldenism

Part V. Legal and Literary Imagining

20: Luke Wilson: Contract

21: Tim Stretton: Contract and Conjugality in Early Modern England

22: Carolyn Sale: The Literary Thing: The Imaginary Holding of Isabella Whitney's 'Wyll' to London, 1573

23: Frances Dolan: Witch Wives

24: Henry Turner: Corporate Persons, Between Law and Literature

Part VI. Libel, Publication, and the Press

25: David Ibbetson: Edward Coke, Roman Law, and the Law of Libel

26: Joad Raymond: Censorship in Law and Practice in Seventeenth Century England: Milton's Aeropagitica

27: Martin Dzelzainis: Managing the Later Stuart Press, 1662-1696

28: Alastair Bellany: The Torture of John Felton, 1628

Part VII. Liberties, Slaveries, and English Law

29: Bernadette Meyler: From Sovereignty to the State: The Tragicomic Clemency of Massinger's The Bondman

30: Paul Halliday: Birthrights and the Due Course of Law

31: Nigel Smith: Legal Agency as Literature in the English Revolution: The Case of the Levellers

32: Mary Nyquist: Base Slavery and the Roman Yoke

Part VIII. The Extra-English Legal World: Between Colony, Nation, and Empire

33: Andrew Zurcher: Spenser, Plowden, and the Hypallactic Instrument

34: Rab Houston: Law and Literature in Scotland, c.1450-1707

35: Lorna Hutson: Forensic History: Henry V and Scotland

36: Christopher Warren: Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law

37: Edward Holberton: Empire and Natural Law in Dryden's Heroic Drama

38: Dan Hulsebosch: English Liberties Outside England: Floors, Doors, Windows, and Ceilings in the Legal Architecture of Empire

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198857358
ISBN-10:	0198857357
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hutson, Lorna
Redaktion:	Hutson, Lorna
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	244 x 165 x 46 mm
Von/Mit:	Lorna Hutson
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.05.2020
Gewicht:	1,406 kg