LEADER 04378nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910777923903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08733-9 010 $a9786612087332 010 $a1-4008-2642-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826421 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773392 035 $a(EBL)445502 035 $a(OCoLC)521224278 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344367 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11251017 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344367 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10307583 035 $a(PQKB)10605663 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36340 035 $a(DE-B1597)446352 035 $a(OCoLC)979631683 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826421 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445502 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284094 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445502 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773392 100 $a20040121d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWayward contracts$b[electronic resource] $ethe crisis of political obligation in England, 1640-1674 /$fVictoria Kahn 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (383 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-17124-6 311 $a0-691-11773-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-364) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tCHAPTER 1. Introduction -- $tPART ONE: An Anatomy of Contract, 1590-1640 -- $tCHAPTER 2. Language and the Bond of Conscience -- $tCHAPTER 3. The Passions and Voluntary Servitude -- $tPART TWO: A Poetics of Contract, 1640-1674 -- $tCHAPTER 4. Imagination -- $tCHAPTER 5. Violence -- $tCHAPTER 6. Metalanguage -- $tCHAPTER 7. Gender -- $tCHAPTER 8. Embodiment -- $tCHAPTER 9. Sympathy -- $tCHAPTER 10. Critique -- $tCHAPTER 11. Conclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aWhy did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equality before the law. Drawing on literature as well as political theory, state trials as well as religious debates, Kahn argues that the sudden prominence of contract theory was part of the linguistic turn of early modern culture, when government was imagined in terms of the poetic power to bring new artifacts into existence. But this new power also brought in its wake a tremendous anxiety about the contingency of obligation and the instability of the passions that induce individuals to consent to a sovereign power. In this wide-ranging analysis of the cultural significance of contract theory, the lover and the slave, the tyrant and the regicide, the fool and the liar emerge as some of the central, if wayward, protagonists of the new theory of political obligation. The result is must reading for students and scholars of early modern literature and early modern political theory, as well as historians of political thought and of liberalism. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aContracts$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aPolitical obligation$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aSocial contract$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aContracts in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1642-1660 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1660-1688 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aContracts$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical obligation$xHistory 615 0$aSocial contract$xHistory 615 0$aContracts in literature. 676 $a820.9/358/094109033 700 $aKahn$b Victoria Ann$0614780 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777923903321 996 $aWayward contracts$93741788 997 $aUNINA