Imaginary Betrayals
Subtitle: Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England (Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812236408
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; English drama; History - General History; Renaissance; History: World; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; 17th century; Early modern and Elizabethan,; History and criticism; Treason in literature
First sentence: Michel Foucault's generalization that power acts by concealing itself, and that one of its historically persistent masks is the law, has contributed to a tendency in one strain of literary studies to identify early modern legal practices with the interests of court-centered power and political absolutism.