Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment - Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Novel Subjects, Sovereignty, and the Law
1 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 Lady
3 Sovereign Politeness: David Hume's History of England
4 Sovereign Domesticity: Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
5 The Witness and the Law: Ann Radcliffe's The Italian
Epilogue: The Novel and Political Modernity: Beyond Liberalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Peter DeGabriele

Product details

• Authors: Peter Degabriele
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2017
• EAN: 9781611486988
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-698-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama