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Sovereign power and the Enlightenment : eighteenth -century literature and the problem of the political /

By: DeGabriele, Peter.
Series: Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850.Publisher: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2015Description: xxxiv, 181 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 161148698X; 9781611486988.Subject(s): English literature -- 18th century | English literature -- History and criticism | England -- Social life and customs -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 820.9
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- 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, the 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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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 820.9 DEG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0062527
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Includes bibliographic references (page 167-174) and index.

Acknowledgements -- 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, the 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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