The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
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Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:22nd Jun '17
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This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. For historians of early modern England, turning to legal archives and learning more about legal procedure has seemed increasingly relevant to the project of understanding familial and social relations as well as political institutions, state formation, and economic change. Literary scholars and intellectual historians have also shown how classical forensic rhetoric formed the basis both of the humanist teaching of literary composition (poetry and drama) and of new legal epistemologies of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability. This Handbook brings historians, literary scholars, and legal historians together to build on and challenge these and similar lines of inquiry. Chapters in the Handbook consider the following topics in a variety of combinations: forensic rhetoric, poetics and evidence; humanist and legal learning; political and professional identities at the Inns of Court; poetry, drama, and visual culture; local governance and legal reform; equity, conscience, and religious law; legal transformations of social and affective relations (property, marriage, witchcraft, contract, corporate personhood); authorial liability (libel, censorship, press regulation); rhetorics of liberty, slavery, torture, and due process; nation, sovereignty, and international law (the British archipelago, colonialism, empire).
The contributions to this collection are consistently outstanding * Feisal G. Mohamed, CUNY, Renaissance Quarterly *
With its compelling reading of The Merchant of Venice, its rigorous research, and its clarity of style, Skinner's chapter shines as an exemplar of the very best of Shakespearean scholarship. * Louise Powell, The English Association *
Lorna Hutson's magisterial Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 seeks to interrogate the 'ménage a trois' between law, literature, and history...The sections of the volume deliberately juxtapose chapters by authors from different disciplines to generate further cross-pollination. * Harriet Archer, The English Association *
While The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700, might be-come the go-to text for an undergraduate seeking to understand the early modern beginnings of slander as a criminal offense or the concept of 'assumpsit', each subset of essays, organized within the eight parts of this volume, provides a lush opportunity for researchers to enjoy expanded parameters of early modern legal ideas and the plays, poems, and pamphlets that register these concepts. The bibliographies that conclude each essay of this 800-page tome make this text a bargain. * Katherine M. Conway, The Review of English Studies *
The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature offers a representative and stimulating snapshot of what the collective discussion looks like at this moment in time [...] Readers who want a sense of the possibilities that law opens up for thinking about literature and vice versa can benefit greatly from these essays [...] The volume offers its greatest reward for the reader willing to work through all of the essays since there is a synergy and a potentiality here that can be grasped only when one arrives at the end and turns to survey the full expanse of terrain crossed. * Alison A. Chapman, University of Alabama at Birmingham, in Milton Quarterly *
Constructively posing some of the most challenging questions animating the study of law and literature, The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 is a critical resource for any scholar of the field. * Katherine Walker (University of North Carolina), The British Society for Literature and Science *
This volume is commendable for both its breadth of topics and depth of learning (and for the bibliographies!). It should serve both as a valuable reminder of where the law and literature movement came from and as an early indication of where it is heading. * Gregory Kneidel, H-Net *
- Winner of Winner of the 2017 Roland H. Bainton Reference Book Prize, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC)..
ISBN: 9780199660889
Dimensions: 252mm x 178mm x 51mm
Weight: 1622g
826 pages