Elsky

Custom, Common Law & Constit Lawl C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the concept of custom, the basis of England's common law, in literary experiments of sixteenth-century England and Ireland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780198861430
• ISBN-10: 0198861435
• Artikelnr.: 60142146

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Elsky is Assistant Professor of English at Rhodes College. Her areas of research and teaching include law, politics, and literature; the reception of the classical past; gender; women's writing; and the global Renaissance. She has published essays in English Renaissance Literature, Law Culture and the Humanities, and Spenser Studies, and won the Louis Wilson Round Award for Best Essay in Studies in Philology in 2014. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Volkswagen Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Custom and Renaissance Literature
* 1: Time Out of Mind: Custom and the Politics and Poetics of Duration
* 2: The Commonwealth of Custom in Thomas More's Utopia
* 3: Inventing Custom: Meter, Etymology, and Conquest in the
Spenser-Harvey Letters and Spenser's A View of the Present State of
Ireland
* 4: Performing Custom: Poetry and the Aporia of Constitutional
Authorship in Sidney's Old Arcadia
* 5: Cultivating Custom: The Poetics of the Commonplace in Isabella
Whitney's A Sweet Nosgay
* 6: Forgetting Custom? Narratio, Rebellion, and Revolution in Sir
Thomas More and Shakespeare's Hamlet
* Conclusion: Custom's Futures