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  • Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries

    by Alison A. Chapman ...
    John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts between citing Roman, common, and ecclesiastical law to best suit his purpose in any given text. This book provides literary scholars with a working ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Legal Epic

    Paradise Lost and the Early Modern Law

    by Alison A. Chapman ...
    The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, The Legal Epic is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton at the center of late seventeenth-century legal history.Alison A. Chapman argues that Milton's Paradise ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Milton

    Edited by Dennis Danielson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Law

    A Conversation Among Disciplines and Professions

    Edited by Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, Richard Strier ...
    William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and the Law demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts and legal practice points to a ... Read more

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  • The Corporate Commonwealth

    Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516–1651

    by Henry S. Turner ...
    The history of the rise and transformation of corporations—and their political power—in Renaissance England.Winner of the Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for the Best Book in Renaissance StudiesThe Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Milton

    Edited by Nicholas McDowell, Nigel Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Origins of Sex

    A History of the First Sexual Revolution

    by Faramerz Dabhoiwala ...
    A man admits that, when drunk, he tried to have sex with an eighteen-year-old girl; she is arrested and denies they had intercourse, but finally begs God's forgiveness. Then she is publicly hanged alongside her attacker. These events took place in 1644, in Boston, where today they would be viewed with horror. How--and when--did such a complete transformation of our culture's attitudes toward sex ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

    Edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an ... Read more

    $144.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700

    Edited by Lorna Hutson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    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 ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Gendering the Nation

    Identity Politics and English Comic Theatre of the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Chandrava Chakravarty ...
    Gendering the Nation studies the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the long eighteenth century as a nation-building discourse. It evaluates the impact of the cultural phenomenon of Sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for the men and women of a polite, genteel nation. The book analyses certain popular comic plays of the time to ascertain the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Ash Wednesday Supper

    A New Translation

    by Giordano Bruno, Hilary Gatti ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Giordano Bruno’s The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and 1585. It presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary systems. As well as opening up the traditional closed universe and ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • English Revenge Drama

    Money, Resistance, Equality

    by Linda Woodbridge ...
    Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. ... Read more

    $38.59 USD