Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political
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2017
Bucknell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61148-698-8 (ISBN)
Bucknell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61148-698-8 (ISBN)
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.
Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment 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. It provides a new way to link the literature and philosophy of the eighteenth century with the meditations on violence and sovereignty that have preoccupied much of the political philosophy of the first years of the twenty first century. Focusing on the novelists Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Ann Radcliffe, and on the historians David Hume and Edward Gibbon, DeGabriele shows how these authors use the resources of their respective genres to expose the persistence of sovereign violence and to outline a type of political subject who could resist the violence more effectively than the individual beloved of modern liberalism.
Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment 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. It provides a new way to link the literature and philosophy of the eighteenth century with the meditations on violence and sovereignty that have preoccupied much of the political philosophy of the first years of the twenty first century. Focusing on the novelists Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Ann Radcliffe, and on the historians David Hume and Edward Gibbon, DeGabriele shows how these authors use the resources of their respective genres to expose the persistence of sovereign violence and to outline a type of political subject who could resist the violence more effectively than the individual beloved of modern liberalism.
Peter DeGabriele is assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Novel Subjects, Sovereignty, and the Law
1 Intimacy, Survival, Resistance: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year
2 Body, Consent, Survival: Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa, or, A History of a Young Lady
3 Sovereign Politeness: David Hume’s History of England
4 Sovereign Domesticity: Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
5 The Witness and the Law: Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
Epilogue: The Novel and Political Modernity: Beyond Liberalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Verlagsort | Cranbury |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 149 x 232 mm |
Gewicht | 327 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-61148-698-X / 161148698X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61148-698-8 / 9781611486988 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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