Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature - Hardcover

 
9781442642010: Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1442642017 ISBN 13: 9781442642010
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2015

Synopsis

Taking 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.

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About the Authors

Donald Beecher is a professor in the Department of English at Carleton University.

Travis DeCook is an associate professor in the Department of English at Carleton University.

Andrew Wallace is an associate professor in the Department of English at Carleton University.

Grant Williams is an associate professor in the Department of English at Carleton University.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1442642017
ISBN 13 
9781442642010
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288
Editor
Beecher Don, DeCook Travis, Wallace Andrew, Williams Grant