The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 by Lorna Hutson

The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 by Lorna Hutson

This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as well as important aspects of the political revolution and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and drama) and new processes of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability. Accordingly, historians, critics, and legal historians come together in this Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical archive. They also contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce, witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence, community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship, authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation state, colonialism, and empire.

The contributions to this collection are consistently outstanding * Feisal GMohamed, CUNY, Renaissance Quarterly *
With its compelling reading of The Merchant of Venice, its rigorous research, and its clarity of style, Skinner's chapter shines as an exemplar of the very best of Shakespearean scholarship. * Louise Powell, The English Association *
Lorna Hutson's magisterial Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 seeks to interrogate the 'ménage a trois' between law, literature, and history...The sections of the volume deliberately juxtapose chapters by authors from different disciplines to generate further cross-pollination. * Harriet Archer, The English Association *

Lorna Hutson is Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Educated in San Francisco, Edinburgh, and Oxford, she has taught at the Universities of St Andrews, UC Berkeley, Hull, and Queen Mary, London. She has served as Head of English at St Andrews (2008-11) and has held fellowships from the Folger, the Huntingdon, the Guggenheim, and the Leverhulme Trust. Her books include Thomas Nashe in Context (1989), The Usurer's Daughter (1994), and The Invention of Suspicion (2007). Circumstantial Shakespeare (2015) was based on the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures in 2012. She has also edited Ben Jonson's Discoveries (1641) for the Cambridge Complete Works of Ben Jonson (2012) and written numerous articles on Renaissance topics.

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ISBN 13	9780198857358
ISBN 10	0198857357
Title	The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
Author	Lorna Hutson
Series	Oxford Handbooks
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2020-03-05
Number of pages	826
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the 2017 Roland H. Bainton Reference Book Prize, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC)..
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