Spenser's Legal Language - Law and Poetry in Early Modern England

List of contents

Introduction: Reading Spenser's Language
`Pleasing Analysis': Renaissance Hermeneutics, Poetry, and the Law
Results: A Survey of Spenser's Legal Diction
Property and Contract in the Quests of Florimell and Amoret
Justice, Equity and Mercy in The Legend of Artegall
Courtesy and Prerogative in The Legend of S. Calidore
The Composition of the World: Managing Power in the Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
Lyric Opposition in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne
After Words
Glossary of Selected Legal Diction in The Fairie Queene
Bibliography
Index

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Zurcher
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2007
• EAN: 9781843841333
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-133-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature; Studies in Renaissance Literat
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General