Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature

Beecher, Donald, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, and Grant Williams, eds.

ISBN 10: 1442642017 / ISBN 13: 9781442642010

Published by Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015

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x, 315 pp., 6 figs. Hardcover with DJ. Unread, as new. New list price: $70.00.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature
• Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442642017
• ISBN 13: 9781442642010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal of legal questions in order to understand how literature operated in the early modern period.

Justice in its many forms – legal, poetic, divine, natural, and customary – is examined through insightful and innovative analyses of a number of texts, including The Merchant of Venice, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost. A major contribution to the growing field of law and literature, this collection offers cultural contexts, interpretive insights, and formal implications for the entire field of English Renaissance culture.

About the Author

Donald Beecher is a professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. Travis DeCook is an associate professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. Andrew Wallace is an associate professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. Grant Williams is an associate professor in the Department of English at Carleton University.