Peter Degabriele

Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment

Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the role of the novelists and historians of the eighteenth century in developing a vision of political modernity that questions traditional narratives about the rise of liberalism and the decline of sovereign power.

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Produktdetails

• Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781611486988
• ISBN-10: 161148698X
• Artikelnr.: 48895309

Autorenporträt

Peter DeGabriele is assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Novel Subjects
Sovereignty
and the Law 1 Intimacy
Survival
Resistance: Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year 2 Body
Consent
Survival: Samuel Richardson's Clarissa
or
A History of a Young Lady 3 Sovereign Politeness: David Hume's History of England 4 Sovereign Domesticity: Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 5 The Witness and the Law: Ann Radcliffe's The Italian Epilogue: The Novel and Political Modernity: Beyond Liberalism Notes Bibliography Index About the Author