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Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature.
Author:	Lockey, Brian C.
Published:	Leiden :Cambridge University Press,2006.
Description:	248 p.
Subject:	English literature.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511483684 (electronic bk.)

Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature.
Lockey, Brian C.

Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature.[electronic resource]. - Leiden :Cambridge University Press,2006. - 248 p.

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�� Old Arcadia; CHAPTER 3 Natural Law and corrupt lawyers: Riche, Roberts, Johnson, and Warner; CHAPTER 4 Spenser�� 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

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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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780511483684 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

181224
English literature.
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214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR411 .L63 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9355409031

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