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Book Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature

Download or read book Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature written by Virginia Lee Strain and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of legal reform and literature in early modern EnglandThis book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser's Faerie Queene, the Gesta Grayorum, Donne's 'Satyre V', and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale, Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character. Key FeaturesReevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studiesAnalyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency.

Book Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Download or read book Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book C  D  Broad  Key Unpublished Writings

Download or read book C D Broad Key Unpublished Writings written by C. D. Broad and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. D. Broad (1887–1971) was a British philosopher who taught for many years at Trinity College, Cambridge. Possessing extremely wide-ranging interests, Broad made significant contributions to the mind-body problem, perception, memory, introspection, the unconscious, the nature of space, time, and causation. He also wrote extensively on the philosophy of science, ethics, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of religion and had an abiding interest in ‘psychical research’—a subject he approached with the disinterested curiosity and scrupulous care that is characteristic of his philosophical work. Whilst overshadowed in his own time by figures such as Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein, he is acknowledged to have anticipated important developments in several fields, such as emergence in philosophy of science, sense perception, and the 'growing block' theory of time in metaphysics. Although Broad published many books in his lifetime, this volume is unique in presenting some of his most interesting unpublished writings. Divided into five clear sections, the following figures and topics are covered: Autobiography Hegel and the nature of philosophy Francis Bacon Hume's philosophy of the self and belief F. H. Bradley The historical development of scientific thought from Pythagoras to Newton Causation Change and continuity Quantitative methods Poltergeists Paranormal phenomena. Each section is introduced and placed in context by the editor, Joel Walmsley. The volume also includes an engaging and informative foreword by Simon Blackburn. It will be of great value to those studying and researching the history of twentieth-century philosophy, metaphysics, and the recent history and philosophy of science, as well as anyone interested in Broad's philosophical thought and his place in the history of philosophy.

Book Bacon s essays  with intr   notes and index by E A  Abbott

Download or read book Bacon s essays with intr notes and index by E A Abbott written by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays with Introduction  Notes and Index

Download or read book Essays with Introduction Notes and Index written by Francis Bacon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Book Bacon s Essays

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francis Bacon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Bacon s Essays written by Francis Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon

Download or read book An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon written by James Spedding and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature  Satire and the Early Stuart State

Download or read book Literature Satire and the Early Stuart State written by Andrew McRae and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew McRae examines the relation between literature and politics at a pivotal moment in English history. He argues that the most influential and incisive political satire in this period may be found in manuscript libels, scurrilous pamphlets and a range of other material written and circulated under the threat of censorship. These are the unauthorised texts of early Stuart England. From his analysis of these texts, McRae argues that satire, as the pre-eminent literary mode of discrimination and stigmatisation, helped people make sense of the confusing political conditions of the early Stuart era. It did so partly through personal attacks and partly also through sophisticated interventions into ongoing political and ideological debates. In such forms satire provided resources through which contemporary writers could define new models of political identity and construct new discourses of dissent. This book wil be of interest to political and literary historians alike.

Book The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon

Download or read book The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon written by James Spedding and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original.

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Critical History of the Economy

Download or read book A Critical History of the Economy written by Ryan Walter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed intellectual and critical history of the economy, explaining how the economy came to be analytically separated from its social and political moorings in the 19th century. It offers a historical perspective on current IPE concerns, and links IPE with the growing field of contextualist intellectual history.

Book English Writers

Download or read book English Writers written by B. A. Sheen and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Writers - A Bibliography with Vignettes

Book Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

Download or read book Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England written by Alison V. Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vitality, abundance, and waste, this study combines intellectual and cultural historical methods to trace discontinuities in luxury’s conceptual development in seventeenth-century England. The central argument is that, as ’luxury’ was gradually Englished in seventeenth-century culture, it developed political and aesthetic meanings that connect with eighteenth-century debates even as they oppose their so-called demoralizing thrust. Alison Scott closely examines the meanings of luxury in early modern English culture through literary and rhetorical uses of the idea. She argues that, while ’luxury’ could and often did denote merely ’lust’ or ’licentiousness’ as it tends to be glossed by modern editors of contemporary works, its cultural lexicon was in fact more complex and fluid than that at this time. Moreover, that fuller understanding of its plural and shifting meanings-as they are examined here-has implications for the current intellectual history of the idea in Western thought. The existing narrative of luxury’s conceptual development is one of progressive upward transformation, beginning with the rise of economic liberalism amidst eighteenth-century debates; it is one that assumes essential continuity between the medieval treatment of luxury as the sin of ’luxuria’ and early modern notions of the idea even as social practises of luxury explode in early seventeenth-century culture.

Book The Caxton Head Catalogue

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  • Author : James Tregaskis (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1352 pages

Download or read book The Caxton Head Catalogue written by James Tregaskis (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: