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Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Hardcover)
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Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Hardcover)
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Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises
to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved
corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at
night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who
commissions copies upon copies of her genealogy; Elizabethan
efforts to eradicate Irish customs of succession; thoughts of the
legacy of sin bequeathed to mankind by our first parents, Adam and
Eve. This book explores how inheritance was imagined between the
lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The writing composed during
this period was the product of what the historian Georges Duby has
called a 'society of heirs', in which inheritance functioned as a
key instrument of social reproduction, acting to ensure that
existing structures of status, wealth, familial power, political
influence, and gender relations were projected from the present
into the future. In poetry, prose, and drama-in Chaucer's Troilus
and Criseyde and his Canterbury Tales; in Spenser's Faerie Queene;
in plays by Shakespeare such as Macbeth, As You Like It, and The
Merchant of Venice; and in a host of other works-we encounter a
range of texts that attests to the extraordinary imaginative reach
of questions of inheritance between the fourteenth and the
seventeenth centuries. Moving between the late medieval and early
modern periods, Imagining Inheritance examines this body of writing
in order to argue that an exploration of the ways in which
premodern inheritance was imagined can make legible the deep
structures of power that modernity wants to forget.
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