Sovereign power and the enlightenment : : eighteenth-century literature and the problem of the political / / Peter DeGabriele.
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| Superior document: | Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lanham, Maryland : : Bucknell University Press,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
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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.