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

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.

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Main Author: DeGabriele, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2015]
Series:Transits (Bucknell University)
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505 0 |a 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. 
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