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Author:

DeGabriele, Peter, author.

Title:

Sovereign power and the enlightenment : eighteenth-century literature and the problem of the political / Peter DeGabriele.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xxxiv, 181 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.
English literature.
English literature--Philosophy.
Enlightenment.
Literature and society.
Politics and literature.
Great Britain.
1700 - 1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Transits: Literature, thought & culture 1650-1850

ISBN:

1611486963
9781611486964

OCLC:

(OCoLC)906121719

LCCN:

2015013180

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)