Taking exception to the law : materializing injustice in early modern English literature / / edited by Donald Beecher, [and three others]
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Taking exception to the law : materializing injustice in early modern English literature / / edited by Donald Beecher, [and three others]
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/3554 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | England |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
| Criticism, interpretation, etc. | |
| Electronic books. | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | BeecherDonald |
| DeCookTravis | |
| WallaceAndrew | |
| WilliamsGrant | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Taking exception to the law |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-9022-4 |
| 1-4426-1685-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787343603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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