{"product_id":"law-and-empire-in-english-renaissance-literature-hardback-9780521858618","title":"Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature (Hardback) 9780521858618","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLaw and Empire in English Renaissance Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study of the role literature played in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrian C. Lockey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521858618, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 August 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: 'Lockey's book remains a rich and emphatic advertisement for the accompanying benefits of taking an expansive view of romance that looks beyond purely literary questions to consider national politics and attitudes to laws and regimes.' Dalhousie Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEarly modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism. Brian Lockey analyses works by such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney in the light of these legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as those interested in the history of law as the British Empire emerged, will learn much from this insightful and ambitious study.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: romance and the ethics of expansion\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Romance and Law: 1. Transnational justice and the genre of Romance\u003cbr\u003e 2. Natural law and charitable intervention in Sir Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia\u003cbr\u003e 3. Natural law and corrupt lawyers: Riche, Roberts, Johnson, and Warner\u003cbr\u003e 4. Spenser's legalization of the Irish conquest\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Prerogative Courts and the Conquest Within: 5. Historical contexts: common law, natural law, civil law\u003cbr\u003e 6. Roman conquest and English legal identity in Cymbeline\u003cbr\u003e 7. Love's justice and the freedom of Brittany in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania Part One\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: English law and the early modern Romance.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265264701720,"sku":"9780521858618","price":70.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521858618i.jpg?v=1692021110","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/law-and-empire-in-english-renaissance-literature-hardback-9780521858618","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}