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Imaginary bodies : legal fictions and rhetorical tropes in early modern English
Sappington, Anne (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis is an investigation of the development and significance of the early modem English use of the term “body politic”, both as a rhetorical trope and as a legal term of art. Unlike previous scholarly work on the ...