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  • Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature.[electronic resource].
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9355409031
    書名/作者: Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature.
    作者: Lockey, Brian C.
    出版者: Leiden : : Cambridge University Press,, 2006.
    面頁冊數: 248 p.
    標題: English literature.
    ISBN: 9780511483684 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780521858618 (print)
    內容註: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Romance and the ethics of expansion; CHAPTER 1 Transnational justice and the genre of romance; CHAPTER 2 Natural law and charitable intervention in Sir Philip Sidney’s Old Arcadia; CHAPTER 3 Natural Law and corrupt lawyers: Riche, Roberts, Johnson, and Warner; CHAPTER 4 Spenser’s legalization of the Irish Conquest; CHAPTER 5 Historical contexts: common law, natural law, civil law; CHAPTER 6 Roman Conquest and English legal identity in Cymbeline
    摘要、提要註: Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. In this insightful and ambitious study, Brian Lockey analyses how such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney helped develop new legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance.
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