Sovereign power and the enlightenment : eighteenth-century literature and the problem of the political / Peter DeGabriele. [electronic resource]
Material type: TextSeries: Transits (Bucknell University)Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)ISBN:- 9781611486971 (e-book)
- 820.9/35809033 23
- PR448.P6 D44 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.