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Equity in English Renaissance Literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) - Hardcover

Book 95 of 155: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Majeske, Andrew

 
9780415977050: Equity in English Renaissance Literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415977053 ISBN 13: 9780415977050
Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

This book accounts for the previously inadequately explained transformation in the meaning of equity in sixteenth century England, a transformation which, intriguingly, first comes to light in literary texts rather than political or legal treatises. The book address the two principal literary works in which the transformation becomes apparent, Thomas More's Utopia and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, and sketches the history of equity to its roots in the Greek concept of epieikeia, uncovering along the way both previously unexplained distinctions, and a long-obscured esoteric meaning. These rediscoveries, when brought to bear upon the Utopia and Faerie Queene, illuminate critical though relatively neglected textual passages that have long puzzled scholars.

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Andrew J. Majeske

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415977053
ISBN 13 
9780415977050
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232