Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature

ISBN-13: 9780198861430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

Stephanie Elsky

Recenzje

Custom, Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature provides the most wide-ranging account to date of the conceptual machinery of custom and custom's key place in the legal imaginary of the period. The book distinguishes itself by showing not simply how legal culture was reflected, commented on, or critiqued by plays and poems, but rather how law generated habits of thought that shaped both formal and material components of writing and reading literature. This sort of critical nuance aligns Elsky's book with the very best work being done on literature and law. It will be required reading for anyone interested in the intersections of literary and legal culture in the early modern period.

O autorze

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.