Power to Do Justice - Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law

Reassessing the relationship between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare and Webster, the author shows that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law's power.

About the author

Bradin Cormack is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago and coauthor of Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700.

Summary

Reassessing the relationship between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare and Webster, the author shows that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law's power.

Product details

• Authors: Bradin Cormack, Cormack Bradin
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2013
• EAN: 9780226061542
• ISBN: 978-0-226-06154-2
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; England, English, LAW / Legal History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Legal History, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600