Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare by Alex Davis (English) Hardco

Description: Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare by Alex Davis Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description A study of the idea of inheritance in late medieval and early modern imaginative literature that shows continuities and coherence across the traditional divide of these periods. Publisher Description Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the kings forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who commissions copies upon copies of her genealogy; Elizabethan efforts to eradicate Irish customs of succession; thoughts of the legacy of sin bequeathed to mankind by our first parents, Adam andEve.This book explores how inheritance was imagined between the lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The writing composed during this period was the product of what the historian Georges Dubyhas called a society of heirs, in which inheritance functioned as a key instrument of social reproduction, acting to ensure that existing structures of status, wealth, familial power, political influence, and gender relations were projected from the present into the future. In poetry, prose, and drama--in Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde and his Canterbury Tales; in Spensers Faerie Queene; in plays by Shakespeare such as Macbeth, As You Like It, andThe Merchant of Venice; and in a host of other works--we encounter a range of texts that attests to the extraordinary imaginative reach of questions of inheritance between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Moving between the latemedieval and early modern periods, Imagining Inheritance examines this body of writing in order to argue that an exploration of the ways in which premodern inheritance was imagined can make legible the deep structures of power that modernity wants to forget. Author Biography Alex Davis is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (2003) and Renaissance Historical Fiction (2011). Details ISBN 0198851421 ISBN-13 9780198851424 Title Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare Author Alex Davis Format Hardcover Year 2020 Pages 312 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:137009140; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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