Spenser's legal language : law and poetry in early modern England

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    • Zurcher, Andrew

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Spenser's legal language : law and poetry in early modern England

Andrew Zurcher

(Studies in Renaissance literature / general editor: John T. Shawcross, v. 23)

D.S. Brewer, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index

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Highlights Spenser's use of legal thought and language, resulting in new insights into his work. Both English language and English political life underwent unprecedented change in the sixteenth century, creating acute linguistic and legal crises that, in Elizabeth I's later years, intersected in the pioneering poetry of Edmund Spenser. This volume explores Spenser's linguistic experimentation and his engagement with political, and particularly legal, thought and language in his major works, demonstrating by thorough lexical analysis and illustrative readings how Spenser figured the nation both descriptively and prescriptively. As a study of the language of The Faerie Queene, the book restores Spenser to his rightful place as a bold but scholarly linguistic innovator, the equal of contemporaries such as Skelton, Shakespeare, Nashe, and Donne. As an enquiry into Spenser's interest in contemporary politics and law, it exposes his serial and contentious engagements in contemporary political theory and practice, and indicates his substantial influence on his contemporaries and successors. Spenser emerges in this book as a poet peculiarly preoccupied with fashioning, or `applying', his reader to the lawful use of words and deeds. ANDREW ZURCHER is Tutor and Director of Studies in English at Queens' College Cambridge.

目次

Introduction: Reading Spenser's Language `Pleasing Analysis': Renaissance Hermeneutics, Poetry, and the Law Results: A Survey of Spenser's Legal Diction Property and Contract in the Quests of Florimell and Amoret Justice, Equity and Mercy in The Legend of Artegall Courtesy and Prerogative in The Legend of S. Calidore The Composition of the World: Managing Power in the Two Cantos of Mutabilitie Lyric Opposition in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne After Words Glossary of Selected Legal Diction in The Fairie Queene Bibliography Index

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