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Law and empire in English Renaissance literature /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Law and empire in English Renaissance literature // Brian C. Lockey.
remainder title:	Law & Empire in English Renaissance Literature
Author:	Lockey, Brian,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - Early modern, 1500-1700 -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483684
ISBN:	9780511483684 (ebook)

Law and empire in English Renaissance literature /
Lockey, Brian,1968-

Law and empire in English Renaissance literature /Law & Empire in English Renaissance LiteratureBrian C. Lockey. - 1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : romance and the ethics of expansion -- Transnational justice and the genre of romance -- Natural law and charitable intervention in Sir Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia -- Natural law and corrupt lawyers : Riche, Roberts, Johnson, and Warner -- Spenser's legalization of the Irish Conquest -- Historical contexts : common law, natural law, civil law -- Roman Conquest and English legal identity in Cymbeline -- Love's justice and the freedom of Brittany in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, part I -- Conclusion : English law and the early modern romance.

Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism. Brian Lockey analyses works by such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney in the light of these legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as those interested in the history of law as the British Empire emerged, will learn much from this insightful and ambitious study.

ISBN: 9780511483684 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

558059
English literature
--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700

LC Class. No.: PR411 / .L63 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/355409031

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