Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance - Literatur

A study of the concept of custom, the basis of England's common law, in literary experiments of sixteenth-century England and Ireland.

List of contents

• Introduction: Custom and Renaissance Literature


• 1: Time Out of Mind: Custom and the Politics and Poetics of Duration


• 2: The Commonwealth of Custom in Thomas More's Utopia


• 3: Inventing Custom: Meter, Etymology, and Conquest in the Spenser-Harvey Letters and Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland


• 4: Performing Custom: Poetry and the Aporia of Constitutional Authorship in Sidney's Old Arcadia


• 5: Cultivating Custom: The Poetics of the Commonplace in Isabella Whitney's A Sweet Nosgay


• 6: Forgetting Custom? Narratio, Rebellion, and Revolution in Sir Thomas More and Shakespeare's Hamlet


• Conclusion: Custom's Futures

About the author

Stephanie Elsky is Assistant Professor of English at Rhodes College. Her areas of research and teaching include law, politics, and literature; the reception of the classical past; gender; women's writing; and the global Renaissance. She has published essays in English Renaissance Literature, Law Culture and the Humanities, and Spenser Studies, and won the Louis Wilson Round Award for Best Essay in Studies in Philology in 2014. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Volkswagen Foundation.

Summary

A study of the concept of custom, the basis of England's common law, in literary experiments of sixteenth-century England and Ireland.

Additional text

This sophisticated book is a fascinating combination of legal history, political thought and literary analysis, illuminating a central aspect of how precisely a modern 'historical consciousness' was born in Renaissance England.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Elsky, Stephanie (Assistant Professor Elsky, Stephanie (Assistant Professor of English) Elsky
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780198861430
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886143-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Law and Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LAW / Legal History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Legal History, Renaissance style, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets