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Taking exception to the law : materializing injustice in early modern English literature

Title
Taking exception to the law : materializing injustice in early modern English literature / edited by Donald Beecher, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, and Grant Williams.
Publication
  • Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Beecher, Donald
  • Wallace, Andrew, 1973-
  • Williams, Grant, 1965-
  • DeCook, Travis, 1976-
  • Cormack, Bradin
Description
vi, 315 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1500-1700
  • 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
  • English literature > Early modern
  • Law and literature
  • England
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Law and the production of literature : an introductory perspective / Grant Williams -- Paper justice, parchment justice : Shakespeare, Hamlet, and the life of legal documents / Bradin Cormack -- Conditional promises and legal instruments in The merchant of Venice / Tim Stretton -- The "snared subject" and the general pardon statute in late Elizabethan coterie Literature / Virginia Lee Strain -- The prison diaries of Archbishop Laud / Debora Shuger -- Criminal biography in early modern news pamphlets / David Stymeist -- Two-sided legal narratives : slander, evidence, proof, and turnarounds in Much ado about nothing / Barbara Kreps -- No boy left behind : education and distributive justice in early modern England / Elizabeth Hanson -- Warding off injustice in book five of The faerie queene / Judith Owens -- Torture and the tyrant's injustice from Foxe to King Lear / John D. Staines -- The literatures of toleration and civil religion in post-revolutionary England / Elliott Visconsi -- Obnoxious Satan : Milton, neo-Roman justice, and the burden of grace / Paul Stevens.
Call Number
JFE 16-9151
ISBN
  • 9781442642010 (bound)
  • 1442642017 (bound)
LCCN
2014501554
OCLC
891408514
Title
Taking exception to the law : materializing injustice in early modern English literature / edited by Donald Beecher, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, and Grant Williams.
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1500-1700
Added Author
Beecher, Donald, editor.
Wallace, Andrew, 1973- editor.
Williams, Grant, 1965- author, editor.
DeCook, Travis, 1976- editor.
Cormack, Bradin. Paper justice, parchment justice.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-9151
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