Sovereign power and the enlightenment : eighteenth-century literature and the problem of the political / Peter DeGabriele.
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Lanham, Maryland :
Bucknell University Press,
[2015]
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Table of 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.