{"product_id":"imagining-inheritance-from-chaucer-to-shakespeare-hardcover","title":"Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlex Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImpossible 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyde \u003c\/em\u003eand his \u003cem\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/em\u003e; in Spenser's \u003cem\u003eFaerie Queene\u003c\/em\u003e; in plays by Shakespeare such as\u003cem\u003e Macbeth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/em\u003e, and T\u003cem\u003ehe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/em\u003e; 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, \u003cem\u003e Imagining Inheritance\u003c\/em\u003e examines this body of writing in order to argue that an\u003cbr\u003eexploration of the ways in which premodern inheritance was imagined can make legible the deep structures of power that modernity wants to forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex Davis, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer, University of St Andrews\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlex Davis is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eChivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance\u003c\/em\u003e (2003) and \u003cem\u003eRenaissance Historical Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e (2011). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729676472383,"sku":"9780198851424","price":225.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/11365076c8684e92959a231d240f073a.webp?v=1765123137","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/imagining-inheritance-from-chaucer-to-shakespeare-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}