Sovereign power and the enlightenment : eighteenth-century literature and the problem of the political / / Peter DeGabriele
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| Autore: |
DeGabriele Peter
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| Titolo: |
Sovereign power and the enlightenment : eighteenth-century literature and the problem of the political / / Peter DeGabriele
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/35809033 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
| Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
| Enlightenment - Great Britain | |
| English literature - Philosophy | |
| Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sovereign power and the enlightenment |
| ISBN: | 1-61148-697-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822443603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Transits (Bucknell University)