Investigating rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the 17th century, this book treats in depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. The dominance of law in early...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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Investigating rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the 17th century, this book treats in depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. The dominance of law in early modern life made its failings and improvements of widespread concern: it was a regular and popular focus of criticism. The terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike evaluated form and character. Legal reform, together with the conflicts and anxieties that inspired and sprang from it, were represented by courtly, coterie, and professional writers.
