Spenser's legal language : law and poetry in early modern England /
This volume explores Spenser's linguistic experimentation and his engagement with political, and particularly legal, thought and language in his major works, demonstrating by thorough lexical analysis and illustrative readings how Spenser figured the nation both descriptively and prescriptively...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY :
D.S. Brewer
2007.
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| Series: | Studies in Renaissance literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) ;
v. 23. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81rr1 |
Table 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 Sir Calidore
- The composition of the world: Managing power in the Two cantos of mutabilitie
- Lyric opposition in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne
- After words.