Description:
Poetics of the Legal Sea in English Renaissance Literature examines how early modern writers used imaginative literature to conceptualize the maritime laws that governed life at sea. Blending literary analysis with legal history and cognitive theory, the book reveals how the period's poetry and drama helped define the meaning of law in a maritime world.
Review Quotes:
"Poetics of the Legal Sea in English Renaissance Literature is an ambitious piece of literary scholarship that promises fresh readings of various early seventeenth-century English literary works in the context of maritime law and early modern maritime history." --Dan Brayton, author of Shakespeare's Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration