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003			OCoLC
005			20240726105057.0
008			180529s2018 nyu ob 001 0 eng
010			_a2018025998
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dNT _dEBLCP _dJSTOR
020			_a9781501716935 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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043			_ae------
050	1	0	_aPN56 _b.I434 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aTang, Chenxi, _d1968- _e1
245	1	0	_aImagining world order : _bliterature and international law in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 / _cChenxi Tang.
260			_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aThe old world order dissolving -- _tThe poetics of international legal order -- _tInternational order as tragedy -- _tInternational order as romance -- _tThe divergence between international law and literature around 1700 -- _tThe novel and international order in the eighteenth century.
520	0		_a"In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal norms. In Imagining World Order, Chenxi Tang shows that international world order was as much a literary as a legal matter. To begin with, the poetic imagination contributed to the making of international law. As the discourse of international law coalesced, literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems and rehearsing imaginary solutions. Tang highlights the various modes in which literary texts--some highly canonical (Camões, Shakespeare, Corneille, Lohenstein, and Defoe, among many others), some largely forgotten yet worth rediscovering--engaged with legal thinking in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In tracing such engagements, he offers a dual history of international law and European literature. As legal history, the book approaches the development of international law in this period--its so-called classical age--in terms of literary imagination. As literary history, Tang recounts how literature confronted the question of international world order and how, in the process, a set of literary forms common to major European languages (epic, tragedy, romance, novel) evolved"-- _cPublisher's Web site.
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650		0	_aLaw in literature.
650		0	_aInternational relations in literature.
650		0	_aEuropean literature _y18th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aInternational law _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1727988&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell