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LAW AND EMPIRE IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE 1st Edition by Brian Lockey ISBN 0521858615 9780521858618

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Authors:BRIAN C. LOCKEY , Author sort:LOCKEY, BRIAN C. , Published:Published:Jul 2006

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ISBN 10: 0521858615
ISBN 13: 9780521858618
Author: Brian Lockey

Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism. Brian Lockey analyses works by such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney in the light of these legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as those interested in the history of law as the British Empire emerged, will learn much from this insightful and ambitious study.

LAW AND EMPIRE IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE 1st Edition Table of contents:

Section 1: Introduction

The Intersection of Law and Empire in the English Renaissance
Historical Context: Law, Literature, and Empire in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Theoretical Approaches to Law and Empire in Literature

Section 2: Legal Discourses and Imperial Ideologies
4. The Development of English Common Law and Imperial Authority
5. Legal Texts and the Representation of Sovereignty
6. The Influence of Roman Law on English Imperial Thought

Section 3: Law and Literature in the English Renaissance
7. Legal Themes in the Works of William Shakespeare
8. Law, Justice, and Empire in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser
9. The Legal and Imperial Dimensions of John Milton’s Writings

Section 4: Literary Representations of Colonial Encounters
10. Depicting the New World: Legal and Imperial Imaginations in Renaissance Literature
11. The Role of Law in Colonial Narratives and Travel Literature
12. Law and the Representation of Indigenous Peoples in English Renaissance Texts

Section 5: Legal Authority and Resistance
13. The Power of the Law: Authority and Dissent in Renaissance Drama
14. Literary Challenges to Legal and Imperial Authority
15. The Politics of Law and Literature in the English Civil War

Section 6: The Legacy of Law and Empire in English Literature
16. Post-Renaissance Reflections on Law and Empire
17. The Continuing Influence of Renaissance Legal and Imperial Discourses
18. Comparative Perspectives: Law and Empire in Other Literary Traditions

Section 7: Conclusion
19. Reassessing Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature
20. Future Directions in the Study of Law, Literature, and Empire

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