| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Romance and the ethics of expansion; CHAPTER 1 Transnational justice and the genre of romance; CHAPTER 2 Natural law and charitable intervention in Sir Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia; CHAPTER 3 Natural Law and corrupt lawyers: Riche, Roberts, Johnson, and Warner; CHAPTER 4 Spenser's legalization of the Irish Conquest; CHAPTER 5 Historical contexts: common law, natural law, civil law; CHAPTER 6 Roman Conquest and English legal identity in Cymbeline |
| Summary |
Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. In this insightful and ambitious study, Brian Lockey analyses how such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney helped develop new legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Law in literature.
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Renaissance -- England
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Imperialism in literature.
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Law and literature -- History -- 16th century
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Law and literature -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Early modern.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Law and literature.
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Law in literature.
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Renaissance.
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England.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006005393 |
| ISBN |
0511246137 |
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9780511246135 |
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9780511246821 |
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051124682X |
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0511244673 |
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9780511244674 |
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0511245424 |
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9780511245428 |
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9780511483684 |
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0511483686 |
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9780521858618 |
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0521858615 |
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1107167051 |
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9781107167056 |
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1280703482 |
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9781280703485 |
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0511318529 |
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9780511318528 |
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9780521120142 |
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0521120144 |
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