We Are Kings / Spencer Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Spencer, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2020]

Summary:

"We Are Kings recasts the modern individual that is said to be one of the great secular products of eighteenth-century British literature, and of Western modernity more broadly, as a theological entity modeled across genres after the medieval figure of the divine king. Synthesizing literary criticism with contemporary politics and critical theory, We Are Kings treats the modern individual as both a tool of political subjection and as a still under-appreciated basis for emancipation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Secularism Is an Imperial Theology with a Socialist Secret

Dryden's Political Theology and the Making of a Modern Subject

The Domestic Novel's First Heroine: Alexander Pope and the Construction of a National Theological Subject

. Beyond What the Crown Itself Can Confer: Clarissa and the Antinomian Heart of the Modern British Subject

The Other Side of Discipline: Marriage, Slavery, and the Ambivalent Politics of Maria Edgeworth's Domestic Subject

Epilogue: An Immanent Language of Change.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813944739

0813944732