Law and empire in English Renaissance literature
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書誌事項
Law and empire in English Renaissance literature
Cambridge University Press, 2006
- : hbk
大学図書館所蔵 全11件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism. Brian Lockey analyses works by such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney in the light of these legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as those interested in the history of law as the British Empire emerged, will learn much from this insightful and ambitious study.
目次
- Introduction: romance and the ethics of expansion
- Part I. Romance and Law: 1. Transnational justice and the genre of Romance
- 2. Natural law and charitable intervention in Sir Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia
- 3. Natural law and corrupt lawyers: Riche, Roberts, Johnson, and Warner
- 4. Spenser's legalization of the Irish conquest
- Part II. The Prerogative Courts and the Conquest Within: 5. Historical contexts: common law, natural law, civil law
- 6. Roman conquest and English legal identity in Cymbeline
- 7. Love's justice and the freedom of Brittany in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania Part One
- Conclusion: English law and the early modern Romance.
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