Christopher N Warren

Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680

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Produktbeschreibung

Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 is a literary history of international law, which seeks to revise the ways scholars understand early modern English literature in relation to the history of international law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198831136
• ISBN-10: 0198831137
• Artikelnr.: 56975595

Autorenporträt

Christopher N. Warren is an Assistant Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, where he teaches courses on law, literature, and the humanities. Warren's scholarship has appeared in English Literary Renaissance, The Seventeenth Century, and the European Journal of International Law. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Warren trained at the University of Oxford before a receiving a Harper-Schmidt fellowship in the University of Chicago's Society of Fellows.

Inhaltsangabe

* The Stakes of International Law and Literature
* From Epic to Public International Law: Philip Sidney, Alberico
Gentili, and "Intercourse Among Enemies"
* Jacobean Comedy and the Anagnorisis of Private International Law
* The Tragicomic Law of Nations: The Winter's Tale and the Union
* From Imperial History to International Law: Thucydides, Hobbes, and
the Law of Nations
* From Biblical Tragedy to Human Rights: International Legal
Personality in Grotius' Sophompaneas and Milton's Samson Agonistes
* "A Problem from Hell": From Paradise Lost to the Responsibility to
Protect
* Conclusion
* Bibliography