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Hobbes, sovereignty, and early American literature /
"Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature pursues the question of democratic sovereignty as it was anticipated, theorized and resisted in the American colonies and in the early United States. It proposes that orthodox American liberal accounts of political community need to be supplem...
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| Formatua: | Printed Book |
| Hizkuntza: | English |
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New York:
Cambridge university press,
2015.
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| Saila: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
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| Gaiak: |
| LEADER | 02888cam a2200313 i 4500 | ||
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| 008 | 150108s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng | ||
| 999 | |c 113485 |d 113485 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781107085299 (hardback) | ||
| 082 | 0 | 0 | |a 810.9358 |2 23 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Downes, Paul | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Hobbes, sovereignty, and early American literature / |c Paul Downes. |
| 260 | |a New York: |b Cambridge university press, |c 2015. | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 297 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Cambridge studies in American literature and culture | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 8 | |a Machine generated contents note: 1. Sovereignty's new clothes; 2. Re-reading Leviathan: the 'state of nature' and the 'artificial soul'; 3. Hobbes in America; 4. 'Heaven's sugar cake': Puritan sovereignty; 5. Tyranny's corpse: Jonathan Mayhew's revolutionary sermon on Romans; 6. 'Imperium in imperio': founding sovereignty; 7. Tar and feathers: Hawthorne's revolution; 8. Hobbes, slavery, and sovereign resistance; 9. Nat Turner and the African American revolution. | |
| 520 | |a "Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature pursues the question of democratic sovereignty as it was anticipated, theorized and resisted in the American colonies and in the early United States. It proposes that orthodox American liberal accounts of political community need to be supplemented and challenged by the deeply controversial theory of sovereignty that was articulated in Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651). This book offers a radical re-evaluation of Hobbes's political theory and demonstrates how a renewed attention to key Hobbesian ideas might inform inventive re-readings of major American literary, religious and political texts. Ranging from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puritan attempts to theorize God's sovereignty to revolutionary and founding-era debates over popular sovereignty, this book argues that democratic aspiration still has much to learn from Hobbes's Leviathan and from the powerful liberal resistance it has repeatedly provoked"-- | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a American literature |y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a American literature |y Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sovereignty in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Politics and literature |z United States |x History |y 18th century. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. | |
| 942 | |c BK | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Hobbes, Thomas, |d 1588-1679 |x Influence. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Hobbes, Thomas, |d 1588-1679. |t Leviathan. |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Intellectual life |y 18th century. | |
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| 955 | |b xk14 2015-01-08 |i xk14 2015-01-08 ONIX |a xn11 2015-10-21 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. | ||
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