Graduate Student, English
Thesis Title: "Personating Fictions" in Early Modern Law and Literature
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Paul Stevens
Holger Schott Syme Lynne Magnusson |
About
I'm a fourth-year doctoral student, specializing in early modern English law and literature. My dissertation sets out to analyze how the common law’s legal reasoning, what Edward Coke called the “artificial reason and judgment of law,” intersects with literary fictions during the period from the end of the sixteenth century up to the English civil wars. I'm working primarily on Sidney, Shakespeare, and Milton, and, at the moment, I'm examining how legal definitions of personhood (including artificial and corporate personhood) relate to literary personification and related rhetorical strategies.
I'm also interested more generally in how early modern conceptions of justice and law are articulated in terms of national communities, especially how England is defined in terms of other nations (i.e., Troy, classical Rome, and contemporary continental European countries).
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