Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature

‘Highly recommended’

J.D. Sharpe, Choice Magazine, vol 52:12:2015

‘The volume takes its place among lively and rapidly expanding scholarship on early modern law and literature… Such a survey can do little, of course, to give a full sense of the richness of the volume but perhaps can tantalize readers with the variety of texts and breadth of concepts the authors tackle.’

Karen Cunningham, Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:02:2016

‘The editors gather an admirable selection of essays from a range of scholars….Taking Exception to the Law provokes stimulating conversation between legal and literary sources.’

Larissa Tracy, Sixteenth Century Studies vol 47:02:2016

‘Taking Exception to the Law certainly illuminates the networks of literary actors, both non-human and human, that exert power in early modern English law.’

Marissa Greenberg, English Studies in Canada vol 42:3-4:2016

“Organized around an elegantly theorized vision of literature as positioned to ‘take exception to’ the law and legal institutions to which it nevertheless remains immanent, this volume presents a collection of essays by several of the foremost scholars working in the field of literature and law in the early modern period. Hardly merely another collection, this volume presents original, advanced recent work in early modern law, literature, and culture, together with a fine introduction by Grant Williams that at once summarizes and advances the state of the field. Necessary reading for those interested in the field and, indeed, for those interested in early modern English literature and culture generally.” Luke Wilson, Department of English, The Ohio State University