{"id":5510,"date":"2022-06-21T10:23:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2022-06-21T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:23:45","slug":"from-the-new-rambler-rebecca-lemon-on-stephanie-elskys-custom-common-law-and-the-constitution-of-english-renaissance-literature-srelsky-thenewrambler-arsscripta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/from-the-new-rambler-rebecca-lemon-on-stephanie-elskys-custom-common-law-and-the-constitution-of-english-renaissance-literature-srelsky-thenewrambler-arsscripta\/","title":{"rendered":"From The New Rambler: Rebecca Lemon on Stephanie Elsky&#8217;s Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature @srelsky @TheNewRambler @ArsScripta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Lemon reviews Stephanie Elsky&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/custom-common-law-and-the-constitution-of-english-renaissance-literature-9780198861430?q=stephanie%20elsky&amp;lang=en&amp;cc=us\">Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature (Oxford University Press, 2020)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newramblerreview.com\/book-reviews\/law\/custom-s-oppositional-evocations\">here for the New Rambler.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lemon says in part,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Custom, Elsky writes, \u201cdoes not rely upon\u2014even rejects\u2014the possibility of historical consciousness because it refuses to recognize the pastness of the past\u201d (14). This challenge to the \u201cpastness of the past\u201d undermines the breaks and ruptures\u2014the epistemic shifts\u2014that we usually associate with periodization. Grounding her study in an extensive excavation of the uses of custom, Elsky illuminates the surprising range of possibility\u2014specifically literary possibility\u2014within this familiar concept.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Lemon reviews Stephanie Elsky&#8217;s Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature (Oxford University Press, 2020) here for the New Rambler.\u00a0 Lemon says in part, &nbsp; Custom, Elsky writes, \u201cdoes not&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[648,545],"class_list":["post-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-literature","tag-book-reviews","tag-law-and-literature"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1qS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5514,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions\/5514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}