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03291aam a2200373 i 4500 001 3DD23CE0072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 190711s2020 enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019945700 020 $a 0198851421 020 $a 9780198851424 035 $a (OCoLC)1110450094 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXIT $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d GZN $d TJCBL $d OCLCO $d BDF $d OCLCO $d AAA $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PR149.I67 $b D38 2020 082 04 $a 820.93 $2 23 100 1 $a Davis, Alex $c (English professor), $e author. 245 10 $a Imagining inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare / $c Alex Davis. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 297 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a Impossible 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. This 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 Troilus and Criseyde and his Canterbury Tales; in Spenser's Faerie Queene; in plays by Shakespeare such as Macbeth, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice; 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, Imagining Inheritance examines this body of writing in order to argue that an exploration of the ways in which premodern inheritance was imagined can make legible the deep structures of power that modernity wants to forget. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 271 - 289) and index. 505 0 $a List of illustrations -- Notes on texts -- Introduction: Imaging premodern inheritance -- 1 Fictions of the will -- 2 Natural philosophy -- 3 World histories -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index. 648 7 $a 1500-1700 $2 fast 650 0 $a Inheritance and succession in literature. 650 0 $a English literature $y Middle English, 1100-1500 $x Themes, motives. 650 0 $a English literature $y Early modern, 1500-1700 $x Themes, motives. 650 7 $a English literature $x Themes, motives. $x Themes, motives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01711345 650 7 $a Inheritance and succession in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00973417 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012311.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3DD23CE0072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search