UID:
almahu_9949274116302882
Format:
1 online resource (217 pages)
ISBN:
9781611486971 (e-book)
Series Statement:
Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: DeGabriele, Peter. Sovereign power and the enlightenment : eighteenth-century literature and the problem of the political. Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2015] ISBN 9781611486964
Language:
English
Keywords:
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