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.
Temas:
Theology in literature.
Politics in literature.
Politics and literature.
English literature.
Individuality in literature.
Secularism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Individualite dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Secularism Is an Imperial Theology with a Socialist Secret
  • Dryden's Political Theology and the Making of a Modern Subject
  • The Domestic Novel's First Heroine: Alexander Pope and the Construction of a National Theological Subject
  • Beyond What the Crown Itself Can Confer: Clarissa and the Antinomian Heart of the Modern British Subject
  • The Other Side of Discipline: Marriage, Slavery, and the Ambivalent Politics of Maria Edgeworth's Domestic Subject
  • Epilogue: An Immanent Language of Change.

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