Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521032896)

Natural Law, whether grounded in human reason or divine edict, encourages humankind to follow virtue and shun vice. The concept dominated Renaissance thought, where its literary equivalent, poetic justice, underpinned much of the period's creative writing. Robert White examines a wide range of Renaissance texts to show how writers as radically different as Milton and Hobbes formulated versions of Natural Law that served to maintain socially established hierarchies. This is the first book to apply a vast area of intellectual history to imaginative literature across a variety of genres during the Renaissance period.

Author: R. S. White,White R. S.
ISBN-10: 052103289X
ISBN-13: 9780521032896
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2007
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.02w x 0.78d