Time out of mind: The poetics of custom and common law in early modern England
The formal and rhetorical elements of the texts I analyze are likewise shaped by common-law custom, particularly its emphasis on repetition and its foundation in communal consensus. Custom lends new valences to More's ubiquitous use of proverbs, the copia of Sidney's prose romance, Spenser...
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