Taking Exception to the Law - Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature (Hardcover)

Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal of legal questions in order to understand how literature operated in the early modern period. Justice in its many forms - legal, poetic, divine, natural, and customary - is examined through insightful and innovative analyses of a number of texts, including The Merchant of Venice, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost. A major contribution to the growing field of law and literature, this collection offers cultural contexts, interpretive insights, and formal implications for the entire field of English Renaissance culture.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	2015
First published:	2015
Editors:	Donald Beecher • Travis DeCook • Andrew Wallace • Grant Williams
Dimensions:	237 x 165 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-4426-4201-0
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LSN:	1-4426-4201-7
Barcode:	9781442642010

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