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Wayward Contracts

Victoria Kahn
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Author : Victoria Kahn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691171241

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Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equality before the law. Drawing on literature as well as political theory, state trials as well as religious debates, Kahn argues that the sudden prominence of contract theory was part of the linguistic turn of early modern culture, when government was imagined in terms of the poetic power to bring new artifacts into existence. But this new power also brought in its wake a tremendous anxiety about the contingency of obligation and the instability of the passions that induce individuals to consent to a sovereign power. In this wide-ranging analysis of the cultural significance of contract theory, the lover and the slave, the tyrant and the regicide, the fool and the liar emerge as some of the central, if wayward, protagonists of the new theory of political obligation. The result is must reading for students and scholars of early modern literature and early modern political theory, as well as historians of political thought and of liberalism.

Wayward Contracts

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:746471226

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Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract t.

Right Romance

Emily Griffiths Jones
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Author : Emily Griffiths Jones
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271085449

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Right Romance by Emily Griffiths Jones Pdf

In this book, Emily Griffiths Jones examines the intersections of romance, religion, and politics in England between 1588 and 1688 to show how writers during this politically turbulent time used the genre of romance to construct diverse ideological communities for themselves. Right Romance argues for a recontextualized understanding of romance as a multigeneric narrative structure or strategy rather than a prose genre and rejects the common assumption that romance was a short-lived mode most commonly associated with royalist politics. Puritan republicans likewise found in romance strength, solace, and grounds for political resistance. Two key works that profoundly influenced seventeenth-century approaches to romance are Philip Sidney’s New Arcadia and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, which grappled with romance’s civic potential and its limits for a newly Protestant state. Jones examines how these works influenced writings by royalists and republicans during and after the English Civil War. Remaining chapters pair writers from both sides of the war in order to illuminate the ongoing ideological struggles over romance. John Milton is analyzed alongside Margaret Cavendish and Percy Herbert, and Lucy Hutchinson alongside John Dryden. In the final chapter, Jones studies texts by John Bunyan and Aphra Behn that are known for their resistance to generic categorization in an attempt to rethink romance’s relationship to election, community, gender, and generic form. Original and persuasive, Right Romance advances theoretical discussion about romance, pushing beyond the limits of the genre to discover its impact on constructions of national, communal, and personal identity.

Liberalizing Contracts

Anat Rosenberg
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Author : Anat Rosenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317410492

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In Liberalizing Contracts Anat Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberal thought in England, as developed through, and as it developed, the concept of contract, understood as the formal legal category of binding agreement, and the relations and human practices at which it gestured, most basically that of promise, most broadly the capitalist market order. She does so by placing canonical realist novels in conversation with legal-historical knowledge about Victorian contracts. Rosenberg argues that current understandings of the liberal effort in contracts need reconstructing from both ends of Henry Maine's famed aphorism, which described a historical progress "from status to contract." On the side of contract, historical accounts of its liberal content have been oscillating between atomism and social-collective approaches, missing out on forms of relationality in Victorian liberal conceptualizations of contracts which the book establishes in their complexity, richness, and wavering appeal. On the side of status, the expectation of a move "from status" has led to a split along the liberal/radical fault line among those assessing liberalism's historical commitment to promote mobility and equality. The split misses out on the possibility that liberalism functioned as a historical reinterpretation of statuses – particularly gender and class – rather than either an effort of their elimination or preservation. As Rosenberg shows, that reinterpretation effectively secured, yet also altered, gender and class hierarchies. There is no teleology to such an account.

Compromise

Alin Fumurescu
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Author : Alin Fumurescu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107029439

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This book offers a conceptual history of compromise demonstrating the connection between understandings of compromise and understandings of political representation.

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

Lorna Hutson
The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature 1500 1700 Book PDF

Author : Lorna Hutson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199660889

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The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 by Lorna Hutson Pdf

"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 well as important aspects of the political revolution and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and drama) and new processes of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability. Accordingly, historians, critics and legal historians come together in this Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical archive.They also contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce, witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence, community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship, authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation state, colonialism, and empire"--Book jacket.

Gender and the English Revolution

Ann Hughes
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Author : Ann Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136642487

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Gender and the English Revolution by Ann Hughes Pdf

In this fascinating and unique study, Ann Hughes examines how the experience of civil war in seventeenth-century England affected the roles of women and men in politics and society; and how conventional concepts of masculinity and femininity were called into question by the war and the trial and execution of an anointed King. Ann Hughes combines discussion of the activities of women in the religious and political upheavals of the revolution, with a pioneering analysis of how male political identities were fractured by civil war. Traditional parallels and analogies between marriage, the family and the state were shaken, and rival understandings of sexuality, manliness, effeminacy and womanliness were deployed in political debate. In a historiography dominated by military or political approaches, Gender and the English Revolution reveals the importance of gender in understanding the events in England during the 1640s and 1650s. It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in women’s history, feminism, gender or British History.

Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts

Amanda Bailey,Mario DiGangi
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Author : Amanda Bailey,Mario DiGangi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137561268

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Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts by Amanda Bailey,Mario DiGangi Pdf

The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies, this volume demonstrates how questions of affect illuminate issues of cognition, political agency, historiography, and scientific thought in early modern literature and culture. Engaging various historical and theoretical perspectives, the essays in this volume bring affect to bear on early modern representations of bodies, passions, and social relations by exploring: the role of embodiment in political subjectivity and action; the interactions of human and non-human bodies within ecological systems; and the social and physiological dynamics of theatrical experience. Examining the complexly embodied experiences of leisure, sympathy, staged violence, courtiership, envy, suicide, and many other topics, the contributors open up new ways of understanding how Renaissance writers thought about the capacities, pleasures, and vulnerabilities of the human body.

Shakespeare's Curse

Bjoern Quiring
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Author : Bjoern Quiring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000155211

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Shakespeare's Curse by Bjoern Quiring Pdf

Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical discourse, Shakespeare’s Curse pursues a reading of Richard III, King John, and King Lear in order to analyse the persistence of imprecations in the discourses of modernity. Shakespeare wrote during a period that was transformative in the development of juridical thinking. However, taking up the relationship between theatre, theology and law, Bjoern Quiring argues that the curse was not eliminated from legal discourses during this modernization of jurisprudence; rather, it persisted and to this day continues to haunt numerous speech acts. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Lacan, Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, among others, Quiring analyses the performativity of the curse, and tracks its power through the juristic themes that are pursued within Shakespeare’s plays – such as sovereignty, legitimacy, succession, obligation, exception, and natural law. Thus, this book provides an original and important insight into early modern legal developments, as well as a fresh perspective on some of Shakespeare’s best-known works. A fascinating interdisciplinary study, this book will interest students and scholars of Law, Literature, and History.

Contract, Culture, and Citizenship

Mark E. Button
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Author : Mark E. Button
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271046150

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Contract, Culture, and Citizenship by Mark E. Button Pdf

"Explores the concept of the social contract and how it shapes citizenship. Argues that the modern social contract is an account of the ethical and cultural conditions upon which modern citizenship depends"--Provided by publisher.

The Immortal Commonwealth

David P. Henreckson
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Author : David P. Henreckson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108470216

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Reveals how early modern religious conceptions of covenant and community were deployed for surprisingly radical political ends.

Friendship's Shadows: Women's Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640-1705

Penelope Anderson
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Author : Penelope Anderson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748655854

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Friendship's Shadows: Women's Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640-1705 by Penelope Anderson Pdf

Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after. It uncovers the latent threat of betrayal lurking within politicized classical and humanist friendship, showing its surprising resilience as a model for political obligation undone and remade. Incorporating authors from Cicero to Abraham Cowley and Margaret Cavendish to Mary Astell, the book focuses on two extraordinary women writers, the royalist Katherine Philips and the republican Lucy Hutchinson. And it explores the ways in which they appropriate the friendship tradition in order to address problems of conflicting allegiances in the English Civil Wars and Restoration. As Penelope Anderson suggests, their writings on friendship provide a new account of women's relation to public life, organized through textual exchange rather than bodily reproduction.

Animals and Other People

Heather Keenleyside
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Author : Heather Keenleyside
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812293302

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Animals and Other People by Heather Keenleyside Pdf

In Animals and Other People, Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the "lives" of mice as well as men. From such writers—including James Thomson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and others—she recovers a key insight about the representation of living beings: when we think and write about animals, we are never in the territory of strictly literal description, relying solely on the evidence of our senses. Indeed, any description of animals involves personification of a sort, if we understand personification not as a rhetorical ornament but as a fundamental part of our descriptive and conceptual repertoire, essential for distinguishing living beings from things. Throughout the book, animals are characterized by a distinctive mode of agency and generality; they are at once moving and being moved, at once individual beings and generic or species figures (every cat is also "The Cat"). Animals thus become figures with which to think about key philosophical questions about the nature of human agency and of social and political community. They also come into view as potential participants in that community, as one sort of "people" among others. Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People also argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together.

Touts

Enrique Martino
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Author : Enrique Martino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110755923

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Touts by Enrique Martino Pdf

Touts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa’s largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in today’s Equatorial Guinea, 100 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. The Spanish ruled this often-ignored island from the mid-nineteenth century until 1968. A booming plantation economy led to the arrival of several hundred thousand West African, principally Nigerian, contract workers on steamships and canoes. In Touts, Enrique Martino traces the confusing transition from slavery to other labor regimes, paying particular attention to the labor brokers and their financial, logistical, and clandestine techniques for bringing workers to the island. Martino combines multi-sited archival research with the concept of touts as "lumpen-brokers" to offer a detailed study of how commercial labor relations could develop, shift and collapse through the recruiters’ own techniques, such as large wage advances and elaborate deceptions. The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of labor mobility, contract law, informal credit structures and exchange practices in African history.

Milton and the Burden of Freedom

Warren Chernaik
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Author : Warren Chernaik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107153189

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Milton and the Burden of Freedom by Warren Chernaik Pdf

This book examines the unresolved tensions in Milton's writings, as he grapples with the paradox of freedom in a universe ruled by an all-powerful God.