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Hayley Cotter

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Hayley Cotter är en uppskattad författare inom Skönlitteratur med totalt 2 böcker tillgängliga på Bokkollen.

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Poetics of the Legal Sea in English Renaissance Literature

A vivid exploration of how early modern literature transformed the law of the sea into a rich imaginative realm of maritime space and poetic possibilityPoetics of the Legal Sea in English Renaissance Literature is a richly layered study that traces how early modern writers imagined the sea as both a legal landscape and a site of narrative possibility. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the book illuminates the ways literary forms conceptualized the maritime laws that governed the early modern world. Its narrative moves fluidly between legal frameworks and poetic language, revealing a dynamic exchange between artistic expression and the systems that regulated life at sea.Hayley Cotter's analysis charts a metaphorical voyage, guiding readers from the calm departure of genre and jurisdiction through turbulent encounters with piracy, shipwreck, and salvage. Plays and poems become vessels that carry ideas about authority, justice, and sovereignty, while rhetorical devices such as metaphor, synecdoche, and metonymy deepen the imaginative pull of maritime experience. This journey foregrounds the cognitive effects of literary language, showing how early modern authors engaged with legal culture in ways that often moved beneath the surface of conscious thought.As the chapters progress, literary texts become active participants in shaping understandings of law and maritime space. Shakespearean drama, Elizabethan pirate tales, sonneteering traditions, and anonymous sea poems all contribute to a vibrant conversation about how societies negotiated law and commerce on the open water. Bringing together readers interested in early modern literature, maritime history, and interdisciplinary inquiry, Poetics of the Legal Sea in English Renaissance Literature offers a compelling exploration of how the ocean's vast, shifting expanse inspired new ways of thinking about power and the stories that give shape to legal life.