Sovereign power and the enlightenment eighteenth-century literature and the problem of the political

Sovereign power and the enlightenment : eighteenth-century literature and the problem of the political / Peter DeGabriele.

Author/creator	DeGabriele, Peter
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2015]
Description	xxxiv, 181pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	English literature--18th century --History and criticism. Politics and literature--Great Britain --History --18th century. Enlightenment--Great Britain. English literature--Philosophy. Literature and society--Great Britain --History --18th century.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2015013180
ISBN	9781611486964 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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