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We Are Kings : Political Theology and the Making of a Modern Individual /

"We Are Kings recasts the modern individual that is said to be one of the great secular products of eighteenth-century British literature, and of Western modernity more broadly, as a theological entity modeled across genres after the medieval figure of the divine king. Synthesizing literary cri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jackson, Spencer, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"We Are Kings recasts the modern individual that is said to be one of the great secular products of eighteenth-century British literature, and of Western modernity more broadly, as a theological entity modeled across genres after the medieval figure of the divine king. Synthesizing literary criticism with contemporary politics and critical theory, We Are Kings treats the modern individual as both a tool of political subjection and as a still under-appreciated basis for emancipation"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (230 pages).
ISBN:9780813944739