04526nam 2200769 450 991046050410332120200520144314.01-4426-9022-41-4426-1685-710.3138/9781442690226(CKB)3710000000356554(EBL)3296999(SSID)ssj0001472896(PQKBManifestationID)11825046(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001472896(PQKBWorkID)11436582(PQKB)11255296(CEL)438796(OCoLC)905362055(CaBNVSL)slc00235595(MiAaPQ)EBC3296999(MiAaPQ)EBC4672748(DE-B1597)465168(OCoLC)1013967029(OCoLC)979751150(DE-B1597)9781442690226(Au-PeEL)EBL4672748(CaPaEBR)ebr11258402(OCoLC)906190283(EXLCZ)99371000000035655420160914h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTaking exception to the law materializing injustice in early modern English literature /edited by Donald Beecher, [and three others]Toronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2015.©20151 online resource (288 p.)1-4426-4201-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Law and the Production of Literature: An Introductory Perspective / Williams, Grant -- 2. Paper Justice, Parchment Justice: Shakespeare, Hamlet, and the Life of Legal Documents / Cormack, Bradin -- 3. Conditional Promises and Legal Instruments in The Merchant of Venice / Stretton, Tim -- 4. The "Snared Subject" and the General Pardon Statute in Late Elizabethan Coterie Literature / Lee Strain, Virginia -- 5. The Prison Diaries of Archbishop Laud / Shuger, Debora -- 6. Criminal Biography in Early Modern News Pamphlets / Stymeist, David -- 7. Two-Sided Legal Narratives: Slander, Evidence, Proof, and Turnarounds in Much Ado About Nothing / Kreps, Barbara -- 8. No Boy Left Behind: Education and Distributive Justice in Early Modern England / Hanson, Elizabeth -- 9. Warding off Injustice in Book Five of The Faerie Queene / Owens, Judith -- 10. Torture and the Tyrant's Injustice from Foxe to King Lear / Staines, John D. -- 11. The Literatures of Toleration and Civil Religion in Post-Revolutionary England / Visconsi, Elliott -- 12. Obnoxious Satan: Milton, Neo-Roman Justice, and the Burden of Grace / Stevens, Paul -- Contributors -- IndexTaking 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.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismLaw and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryLaw and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryLaw in literatureJustice in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Law and literatureHistoryLaw and literatureHistoryLaw in literature.Justice in literature.820.9/3554Beecher Donald, DeCook Travis, Wallace Andrew, Williams Grant, MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460504103321Taking exception to the law2195687UNINA