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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Downes, Paul
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Cambridge university press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Subjects:
Hobbes, Thomas, > 1588-1679 > Influence.
Hobbes, Thomas, > 1588-1679. > Leviathan.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism.
Sovereignty in literature.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 18th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
United States > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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