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UNINA9910787343603321 |
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Titolo |
Taking exception to the law : materializing injustice in early modern English literature / / edited by Donald Beecher, [and three others] |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-9022-4 |
1-4426-1685-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Law and literature - England - History - 16th century |
Law and literature - England - History - 17th century |
Law in literature |
Justice in literature |
History |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Electronic books. |
England |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Volume 1. Law and the Production of Literature: An Introductory Perspective -- volume 2. Paper Justice, Parchment Justice: Shakespeare, Hamlet, and the Life of Legal Documents -- volume 3. Conditional Promises and Legal Instruments in The Merchant of Venice -- volume 4. The "Snared Subject" and the General Pardon Statute in Late Elizabethan Coterie Literature -- volume 5. The Prison Diaries of Archbishop Laud -- volume 6. Criminal Biography in Early Modern News Pamphlets -- volume 7. Two-Sided Legal Narratives: Slander, Evidence, Proof, and Turnarounds in Much Ado About Nothing -- volume 8. No Boy Left Behind: Education and Distributive Justice in Early Modern England -- volume 9. Warding off Injustice in Book Five of The Faerie Queene -- volume 10. Torture and the Tyrant's Injustice |
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from Foxe to King Lear -- volume 11. The Literatures of Toleration and Civil Religion in Post-Revolutionary England -- volume 12. Obnoxious Satan: Milton, Neo-Roman Justice, and the Burden of Grace. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. |
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