Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474454353 (ISBN)
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.
Judith Hudson is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her articles have appeared in The Seventeenth Century and Textual Practice, as well as in several edited volumes. Her research focuses on early modern literature and law.
AcknowledgementsNote on Spelling, Citation and Abbreviation
Introduction
1. ‘Vipers in the bosom of our Law’: The Emergence of Perjury as a Common Law Offence
2. ‘Hollow-hearted angels’: Coins, Counterfeits and the Discourses of Treason
3. ‘The Woman’s Case put to the Lawyers’: Miscarriage of Justice and the Case of Anne Greene
4. Pardon and Oblivion: Pardon, Benefit of Clergy, Peine Forte et Dure
5. ‘England’s Rubidg’: Mary Carleton and the Early Use of Transportation
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.06.2021 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781474454353 / 9781474454353 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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