The poetic ocean in Mare Liberum
Jones, Stephanie (2011) The poetic ocean in Mare Liberum. In, Ben-Dor, Oren (ed.) Law and Art: Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics. Abingdon, GB, Routledge, 188-203.
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This essay traces the effect of literary quotation in Hugo Grotius’s Mare Liberum (The Free Sea) (1609). It places this reading in the context of broader legal, political and historical debates over the entailments of this famous text, and particularly considers the impact of these inter-textualities on Grotius’s arguable secularism and debated imperialism. The essay suggests that Grotius’s deployment of lines and scenes from Roman poetry and drama—by Lucretius, Vergil, Seneca and Ovid— articulate an elliptical, residually-moral vision of the ocean that troubles his legal thesis on the freedom of the seas.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| ISBNs: | 9780415560214 (hardback) |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics K Law > K Law (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > English University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Law Faculty of Humanities > English |
| Item ID: | 157445 |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2010 08:51 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2012 14:04 |
| Contributors: | Jones, Stephanie (Author) Ben-Dor, Oren (Editor) |
| Date: | 27 June 2011 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/157445 |
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