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Sovereign power and the enlightenment : eighteenth-century literature and the problem of the political /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Bucknell University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Novel subjects, sovereignty, and the law
- Intimacy, survival, resistance: Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year
- Body, consent, survival: Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, or, A history of a young lady
- Sovereign politeness: David Hume's History of England
- Sovereign domesticity: Edward Gibbon's The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
- The witness and the law: Ann Radcliffe's The Italian
- Epilogue: The novel and political modernity: beyond liberalism.