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Informationen zum Autor By Peter DeGabriele Klappentext This book examines the role of the novelists and historians of the eighteenth century in developing a vision of political modernity that questions traditional narratives about the rise of liberalism and the decline of sovereign power. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Novel Subjects, Sovereignty, and the Law1 Intimacy, Survival, Resistance: Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year 2 Body, Consent, Survival: Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, or, A History of a Young Lady3 Sovereign Politeness: David Hume's History of England4 Sovereign Domesticity: Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire5 The Witness and the Law: Ann Radcliffe's The ItalianEpilogue: The Novel and Political Modernity: Beyond LiberalismNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

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• Authors: Peter Degabriele
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2015
• EAN: 9781611486964
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-696-4
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies