Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law

Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected and engaged with in early modern English society In a period in which some three hundred crimes were designated as felonies and punishable by death, a consideration of crime must inevitably lead to a preoccupation with consequences. Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law analyses contemporary literary and legal texts, including drama, poetry and commentaries on the law, and considers how 'proportionable' punishment was imagined in the early modern period and how the possibility of justice miscarried might influence that imagining. Judith Hudson is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London.

About the author

Judith Hudson is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her articles have appeared in The Seventeenth Century and Textual Practice, as well as in several edited volumes. Her research focuses on early modern literature and law.

Summary

Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Hudson
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781474454360
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-5436-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture; Edinburgh Critical Studies in
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies