Literature and complaint in England, 1272-1553

Literature and complaint in England, 1272-1553 /

Giving a different perspective on the relations between early judicial process & the development of literature in England, this book argues that texts ranging from political libels & pamphlets to laments of the unrequited lover constitute a literature shaped by the crucial role of complaint...

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Main Author: Scase, Wendy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects:
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Law and literature > History > To 1500.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500.
Complaints (Rhetoric)
Law in literature.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Judicial Plaint and Peasant Plaint; 2. Complaint, Clamour, and Libels; 3. The Literature of Clamour; 4. Transmission, Response, and Development: Clamour Writing 1460
  • 1553; 5. Literature, Complaint, and the Ars Dictaminis.

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