Brian C. Lockey

Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the role literature played in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780521858618
• ISBN-10: 0521858615
• Artikelnr.: 22695380

Autorenporträt

Brian Lockey is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: romance and the ethics of expansion
Part I. Romance and Law: 1. Transnational justice and the genre of Romance
2. Natural law and charitable intervention in Sir Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia
3. Natural law and corrupt lawyers: Riche, Roberts, Johnson, and Warner
4. Spenser's legalization of the Irish conquest
Part II. The Prerogative Courts and the Conquest Within: 5. Historical contexts: common law, natural law, civil law
6. Roman conquest and English legal identity in Cymbeline
7. Love's justice and the freedom of Brittany in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania Part One
Conclusion: English law and the early modern Romance.