Political Constructions : : Defoe, Richardson and Sterne in Relation to Hobbes, Hume, and Burke /

Political Constructions : : Defoe, Richardson and Sterne in Relation to Hobbes, Hume, and Burke / / Carol Kay.

Focussing on three major eighteenth-century English novelists, Carol Kay explores the connections between institutional politics, political philosophy, and fiction. Drawing from Hobbes's Leviathan a political "problematic," a complex of interconnected topics, Kay offers an alternative...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Kay, Carol,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1988
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. POLITICAL ANALYSIS: THE MODEL OF HOBBES
  • 2. DEFOE: ADVENTURES IN POLITICAL CREATIVITY
  • 3. RICHARDSON: PLOTS OF INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE
  • 4. STERNE: SCENES OF PLAY
  • Epilogue: BURKE's FEARFUL REFLECTIONS
  • Index

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