Sovereignty: Seventeenth Century England and the Making of the - Modern Political Imaginar

This volume explores the degree to which seventeenth-century ideas and expressions of sovereignty underpin political modernity.

List of contents

• Introduction


• The Crown as Machine: Hobbes and Lord Saye


• Provincializing Romance


• Milton's Unitary Sovereignty


• Marvell's Dread of the Sword


• Epilogue: Uzzah and the Protection-Obedience Axiom

About the author

Feisal G. Mohamed is Professor of English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where he also serves as coordinator of The Program in Global Early Modern Studies. His previous books include In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton (2008) and Milton and the Post-secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism (2011). He is a past recipient of a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship, which provided second-discipline training in law.

Summary

This volume explores the degree to which seventeenth-century ideas and expressions of sovereignty underpin political modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Feisal G. Mohamed, Feisal G. (Professor in the Phd Program i Mohamed, Mohamed Feisal G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2020
• EAN: 9780198852131
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885213-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, Political Ideologies, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, c 1500 onwards to present day, Legal History, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, History and Archaeology, C 1600 To C 1700, Political ideologies and movements