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Imagining World Order - Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Hardcover)
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Imagining World Order - Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Hardcover)
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In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of
governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states,
purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous
international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and
uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common
authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal
norms. In Imagining World Order, Chenxi Tang shows that
international world order was as much a literary as a legal matter.
To begin with, the poetic imagination contributed to the making of
international law. As the discourse of international law coalesced,
literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to
its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally
affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems
and rehearsing imaginary solutions. Tang highlights the various
modes in which literary texts-some highly canonical (Camoes,
Shakespeare, Corneille, Lohenstein, and Defoe, among many others),
some largely forgotten yet worth rediscovering-engaged with legal
thinking in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth
century. In tracing such engagements, he offers a dual history of
international law and European literature. As legal history, the
book approaches the development of international law in this
period-its so-called classical age-in terms of literary
imagination. As literary history, Tang recounts how literature
confronted the question of international world order and how, in
the process, a set of literary forms common to major European
languages (epic, tragedy, romance, novel) evolved.
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