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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 (Camoes, 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.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 décembre 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501716935
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	5 Mo

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IMAGININGWORLDORDER n L I T E RAT URE AND I NT E RNAT I ONAL L AW I N E ARLY MODE RN E UROPE , 1500–1800

C h e n x i Ta n g

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Tang, Chenxi, 1968– author. Title: Imagining world order : literature and international law in early modern Europe, 1500–1800 / Chenxi Tang. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018025257 (print) | LCCN 2018025998 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501716935 (ebook pdf ) | ISBN 9781501716928 (ebook epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501716911 | ISBN 9781501716911 (cloth ; alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Law in literature. | International relations in literature. | European literature—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. | European literature—18th century—History and criticism. | International law—History. Classification: LCC PN56.L33 (ebook) | LCC PN56.L33 T36 2018 (print) | DDC 809/.933554—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018025257

Cover illustration:The Battle of Lepanto, 7 October 1571. Artist unknown, late sixteenth century. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

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Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1 International Law 3 Literary Approaches to International World Order 9 A Dual History of International Law and European Literature 20 1. The Old World Order Dissolving 25 Universal Laws in Flux (Neoscholastic Jurisprudence) 28 Cosmic Order Disturbed (Camões’sOs LusíadasState) 37, Reason of The Beginnings of Public International Law (Gentili, Suárez, Grotius) 54 2. The Poetics of International Legal Order 66 Treaty and Allegory in the Renaissance 68 The Founding Narratives of International Legal Personality (Grotius, Hobbes, Leibniz) 75 The Founding Narratives of International Society (Grotius, Leibniz) 87 Spectacles of International Order 97 The Drama of International Society 103

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3. International Order as Tragedy 107 The Renaissance of Tragedy and the Problem of International Order 107 The Sovereign Will and the Tragic Form (Marlowe’sTamburlaine, Shakespeare’sKing John) 113 A Tragicomic Intermezzo: The Shapes of World Order in Shakespeare’s Romances 128 The Tragedy of Reason of State (Lohenstein) 140 The Tragedy of Marriage Alliance (Corneille) 152 International Order Through Tragic Experience 167 4. International Order as Romance 170 The Romance Form and World Order (The Greek Romance, Barclay’s Argenis) 172 The Crisis of Political Romance in the MidSeventeenth Century (Herbert) 191 The Apotheosis and Extinction of Political Romance (Anton Ulrich, Leibniz) 197 5. The Divergence between International Law and Literature around 1700 205 The Depersonalization of the State (Gryphius, Milton) 206 The Birth of the Private Individual (Milton, Racine) 213 International Law as a Field of Expert Knowledge 218 Literature and the Private Individual 229

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6. The Novel and International Order in the Eighteenth Century The Fictional Construction of Society: Ius Naturae et Gentium 233 The Fictional Construction of Society: Poetics of the Novel 238 Transnational Commercial World Order (Defoe) 244 Sentimental World Order (Gellert, Sterne) 255 Cosmopolitan World Order (Wieland, Goethe, Kant) 266 Epilogue

Notes 283 References 307 Index 335

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