Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England (Language, Discourse, Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333983998 ISBN 13: 9780333983997

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

This collection features the work of both established and up-and-coming scholars in the UK and US, with contributors including Peter Goodrich, Lorna Hutson, Erica Sheen and David Colclough studying the period of the English Renaissance from the 1520s to the 1660s. This wide-ranging study, working on the edge of new historicism as well as book history, covers topics such as libel/slander and literary debate, legal textual production, authorship and the politics of authorial attribution and theatre and the law.

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About the Author:

DAVID COLCLOUGH Lecturer in English, Queen Mary, University of London, UK PETER GOODRICH Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, New York, USA INA HABERMANN Lecturer in English Literature & Cultural Studies, University of Erlangen SUBHA MUKHERJI Lecturer and Director of Studies in English, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK MARCUS NEVITT Lecturer in English Literature, University of Sheffield, UK MICHELLE O'CALLAGHAN Senior Lecturer in English, Oxford Brookes University, UK ALAN STEWART Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, USA and Associate Director of the AHRB Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, London, UK LUKE WILSON Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University, USA SUE WISEMAN Teaches in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0333983998
• ISBN 13: 9780333983997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Sheen E., Hutson L.