The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hutson, Lorna

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Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as well as important aspects of the political revolution and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and drama) and new processes of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability. Accordingly, historians, critics, and legal historians come together in this Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical archive. They also contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce, witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence, community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship, authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation state, colonialism, and empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 650
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191081972
• Artikelnr.: 48794842

Autorenporträt

Lorna Hutson is Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Educated in San Francisco, Edinburgh, and Oxford, she has taught at the Universities of St Andrews, UC Berkeley, Hull, and Queen Mary, London. She has served as Head of English at St Andrews (2008-11) and has held fellowships from the Folger, the Huntingdon, the Guggenheim, and the Leverhulme Trust. Her books include Thomas Nashe in Context (1989), The Usurer's Daughter (1994), and The Invention of Suspicion (2007). Circumstantial Shakespeare (2015) was based on the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures in 2012. She has also edited Ben Jonson's Discoveries (1641) for the Cambridge Complete Works of Ben Jonson (2012) and written numerous articles on Renaissance topics.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Law, Literature and History
* Part I. Textual and Interpretative Culture
* 1: Kathy Eden: Forensic Rhetoric and Humanist Education
* 2: Margaret McGlynn: Idiosyncratic Books and Common Learning:
Readings on Statutes at the Inns of Court'
* 3: Ian Williams: Common Law Scholarship and the Written Word
* 4: James McBain: 'Attentive Mindes and Serious Wits': Legal Training
and Early Drama
* 5: Quentin Skinner: Why Shylocke Loses his Case: Judicial Rhetoric in
The Merchant of Venice
* Part II. Literature and the Legal Profession, 1500-1700
* 6: Jessica Winston: Legal Satire and the Legal Profession in the
1590s: John Davies' Epigrammes and Professional Decorum
* 7: Peter Goodrich: The Emblem Book and Common Law
* 8: Paul Raffield: The Monarchical Republic: Constitutionality and the
Legal Profession
* 9: Martin Butler: The Legal Masque: Humanity and Liberty at the Inns
of Court
* 10: Christopher Brooks: Paradise Lost? Law, Literature, and History
in Restoration England
* Part III. Administering the Law
* 11: James Sharpe: Law Enforcement and the Local Community
* 12: Norma Landau: The Changing Persona of the Justices and their
Quarter Sessions
* 13: Barbara Shapiro: Law and the Evidentiary Environment
* 14: Virginia Strain: Legal Reform and 2 Henry IV
* Part IV. Temporal and Spiritual, Law and Conscience
* 15: Joshua P. Phillips: Immunities and Monasticism: Bale to
Shakespeare
* 16: Alan Cromartie: Epieikeia and Conscience
* 17: Ethan Shagan: The Ecclesiastical Polity
* 18: Jason Rosenblatt: Making Law and Recording It: John Selden on
Excommunication
* 19: Elliott Visconsi: Seldenism
* Part V. Legal and Literary Imagining
* 20: Luke Wilson: Contract
* 21: Tim Stretton: Contract and Conjugality in Early Modern England
* 22: Carolyn Sale: The Literary Thing: The Imaginary Holding of
Isabella Whitney's 'Wyll' to London, 1573
* 23: Frances Dolan: Witch Wives
* 24: Henry Turner: Corporate Persons, Between Law and Literature
* Part VI. Libel, Publication, and the Press
* 25: David Ibbetson: Edward Coke, Roman Law, and the Law of Libel
* 26: Joad Raymond: Censorship in Law and Practice in Seventeenth
Century England: Milton's Aeropagitica
* 27: Martin Dzelzainis: Managing the Later Stuart Press, 1662-1696
* 28: Alastair Bellany: The Torture of John Felton, 1628
* Part VII. Liberties, Slaveries, and English Law
* 29: Bernadette Meyler: From Sovereignty to the State: The Tragicomic
Clemency of Massinger's The Bondman
* 30: Paul Halliday: Birthrights and the Due Course of Law
* 31: Nigel Smith: Legal Agency as Literature in the English
Revolution: The Case of the Levellers
* 32: Mary Nyquist: Base Slavery and the Roman Yoke
* Part VIII. The Extra-English Legal World: Between Colony, Nation, and
Empire
* 33: Andrew Zurcher: Spenser, Plowden, and the Hypallactic Instrument
* 34: Rab Houston: Law and Literature in Scotland, c.1450-1707
* 35: Lorna Hutson: Forensic History: Henry V and Scotland
* 36: Christopher Warren: Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of
International Law
* 37: Edward Holberton: Empire and Natural Law in Dryden's Heroic Drama
* 38: Dan Hulsebosch: English Liberties Outside England: Floors, Doors,
Windows, and Ceilings in the Legal Architecture of Empire