Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:17th Jul '23
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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.
With this book, Hudson joins a rich and growing interdisciplinary conversation on law and literature in early modern England, artfully engaging with scholarship in history, literary studies, theory, and law... Crime and Consequence is a model contribution to this field, gracefully weaving together analysis of a broad range of scholarly interpretations and a rich tapestry of early modern sources, including court decisions, sermons, pamphlets, legal tomes, and numerous dramatic works. -- Brendan Gillis, Lamar University * Renaissance Quarterly *
A probing study of criminal law, punishment, and the narratives that seek to justify or challenge them. Hudson considers crimes such as perjury and counterfeiting, which raise questions about invention and imagination, and examines them in relation to a wide range of legal, literary, and theological works that pose similar questions. -- Simon Stern, University of Toronto
ISBN: 9781474454360
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240 pages