Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 February 2020
- ISBN 9780198851424
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 26x164x240 mm
- Weight 640 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 Illustrations 0
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Short 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.
MoreLong description:
Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's 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 and Eve.
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 Duby has 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 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and his Canterbury Tales; in Spenser's Faerie Queene; in plays by Shakespeare such as Macbeth, As You Like It, and The 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 late medieval 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.
Extensive in scope and often beautifully written, Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare is a grand and thrilling work, adept at drawing unusual connections and pursuing submerged thematic threads through its subject matter.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Imagining Premodern Inheritance
Part I. Fictions of the Will
'A Very Perfect Forme of a Will': The Fictional Testament
Out of Bounds: Testamentary Fiction From The Tale of Gamelyn to As You Like It
Part II. Natural Philosophy
Petrified Unrest: Succession and Descent in Lancastrian Verse
The Home-Bred Enemy: Inheritance and Constancy in Tudor and Stuart Writing
Part III. World Histories
Heavenly Inheritances
The System of the World: Inheritance, Money, Modernity
Epilogue
