Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law
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| Title: | Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Judith Hudson |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Punishment in literature, Criminal law--Great Britain--Philosophy--History, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism, Crime in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9781474454353 9781474454377 9781474454384 |
