Custom, common law, and the constitution of English Renaissance literature / Stephanie Elsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elsky, Stephanie, author.

Series:

Law and literature (Oxford)

Law and Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Law and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Law and literature.

Manners and customs in literature.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

A study of the concept of custom, the basis of England's common law, in literary experiments of sixteenth-century England and Ireland.

Contents:

Introduction: Custom and Renaissance literature

Time out of mind : custom and the politics and poetics of duration

The commonwealth of custom in Thomas More's Utopia

Inventing custom : meter, etymology, and conquest in the Spenser-Harvey Letters and Spenser's A view of the present state of Ireland

Performing custom : poetry and the Aporia of constitutional authorship in Sidney's Old Arcadia

Cultivating custom : the poetics of the commonplace in Isabella Whitney's A sweet nosgay

Forgetting custom? : rebellion, revolution, and Narratio in Sir Thomas More and Shakepeare's Hamlet

Conclusion: Custom's futures.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780191893421

0191893420

9780192605849

0192605844

9780192605856

0192605852