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Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

Tang, Chenxi

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral LawGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1501716913
ISBN13: 9781501716911
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Dec 15 2018
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.54
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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