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The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
Lorna Hutson (Ed.)
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Description for The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
Hardback. This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literary interpretation to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Editor(s): Hutson, Lorna. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 800 pages, 12 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 171. .
This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. For historians of early modern England, turning to legal archives and learning more about legal procedure has seemed increasingly relevant to the project of understanding familial and social relations as well as political institutions, state formation, and economic change. Literary scholars and intellectual historians have also shown how classical forensic rhetoric formed the basis both of the humanist teaching of literary composition (poetry and drama) and of new legal epistemologies of fact-finding ... Read more
This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. For historians of early modern England, turning to legal archives and learning more about legal procedure has seemed increasingly relevant to the project of understanding familial and social relations as well as political institutions, state formation, and economic change. Literary scholars and intellectual historians have also shown how classical forensic rhetoric formed the basis both of the humanist teaching of literary composition (poetry and drama) and of new legal epistemologies of fact-finding ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
832
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199660889
SKU
V9780199660889
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About Lorna Hutson (Ed.)
Lorna Hutson is Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Educated in San Francisco, Edinburgh, and Oxford, she has taught at the Universities of St Andrews, UC Berkeley, Hull, and Queen Mary, London. She has served as Head of English at St Andrews (2008-11) and has held fellowships from the Folger, the Huntingdon, the Guggenheim, and the ... Read more
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
This volume is commendable for both its breadth of topics and depth of learning (and for the bibliographies!). It should serve both as a valuable reminder of where the law and literature movement came from and as an early indication of where it is heading.
Gregory Kneidel, H-Net
Constructively posing some of the most challenging questions animating the ... Read more
Gregory Kneidel, H-Net
Constructively posing some of the most challenging questions animating the ... Read more