Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature

by White R. S. and R.S. White

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521481422
• ISBN13: 9780521481427
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"