Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Judith Hudson, Birkbeck College) Hudson, Judith (Associate Lecturer in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-11-25
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt496 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Antal sidor240
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474454353

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AcknowledgementsNote on Spelling, Citation and AbbreviationIntroduction1. ‘Vipers in the bosom of our Law’: The Emergence of Perjury as a Common Law Offence2. ‘Hollow-hearted angels’: Coins, Counterfeits and the Discourses of Treason3. ‘The Woman’s Case put to the Lawyers’: Miscarriage of Justice and the Case of Anne Greene4. Pardon and Oblivion: Pardon, Benefit of Clergy, Peine Forte et Dure5. ‘England’s Rubidg’: Mary Carleton and the Early Use of TransportationBibliography

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.