Alex Davis

Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the idea of inheritance in late medieval and early modern imaginative literature that shows continuities and coherence across the traditional divide of these periods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198851424
• ISBN-10: 0198851421
• Artikelnr.: 58408140

Autorenporträt

Alex Davis is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (2003) and Renaissance Historical Fiction (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Imagining Premodern Inheritance
* Part I. Fictions of the Will
* 1: 'A Very Perfect Forme of a Will': The Fictional Testament
* 2: Out of Bounds: Testamentary Fiction From The Tale of Gamelyn to
As You Like It
* Part II. Natural Philosophy
* 3: Petrified Unrest: Succession and Descent in Lancastrian Verse
* 4: The Home-Bred Enemy: Inheritance and Constancy in Tudor and Stuart
Writing
* Part III. World Histories
* 5: Heavenly Inheritances
* 6: The System of the World: Inheritance, Money, Modernity
* Epilogue