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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aTang, Chenxi
_eautore
245 1 0 _aImagining World Order :
_bLiterature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800 /
_cChenxi Tang.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (360 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. The Old World Order Dissolving --
_t2. The Poetics of International Legal Order --
_t3. International Order as Tragedy --
_t4. International Order as Romance --
_t5. The Divergence between International Law and Literature around 1700 --
_t6. The Novel and International Order in the Eighteenth Century --
_tEpilogue --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
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520 _aIn early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal norms. In Imagining World Order, Chenxi Tang shows that international world order was as much a literary as a legal matter. To begin with, the poetic imagination contributed to the making of international law. As the discourse of international law coalesced, literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems and rehearsing imaginary solutions.Tang highlights the various modes in which literary texts—some highly canonical (Camões, Shakespeare, Corneille, Lohenstein, and Defoe, among many others), some largely forgotten yet worth rediscovering—engaged with legal thinking in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In tracing such engagements, he offers a dual history of international law and European literature. As legal history, the book approaches the development of international law in this period—its so-called classical age—in terms of literary imagination. As literary history, Tang recounts how literature confronted the question of international world order and how, in the process, a set of literary forms common to major European languages (epic, tragedy, romance, novel) evolved.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aEuropean literature
_y18th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEuropean literature
_yEarly modern, 1500-1700
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aInternational law
_xHistory.
650 0 _aInternational relations in literature.
650 0 _aLaw in literature.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aLegal History & Studies.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century .
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653 _aLaw and literature, international law, world order, early modern Europe, Shakespeare, Goethe, Marlowe, Barclay, Lohenstein, Anton Ulrich, Defoe, Sterne, Wieland, Camoes, comparative literature, sixteenth century, eighteenth century, seventeenth century, intellectual history.
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