Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Politics & Literature, Monarchy & Feudalism, English Fiction & Prose Literature - 16th-17th Century - Literary Criticism, English Fiction & Prose Literature - 18th Century - Literary Criticism, British History
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Overview
In this new study the authors examine a range of theories about the state of nature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, considering the contribution they made to the period's discourse on sovereignty and their impact on literary activity. Texts examined include Leviathan, Oceana, Paradise Lost, Discourses Concerning Government, Two Treatises on Government, Don Sebastian, Oronooko, The New Atalantis, Robinson Crusoe, Dissertation upon Parties, David Simple, and Tom Jones. The state of nature is identified as an important organizing principle for narratives in the century running from the Civil War through to the second Jacobite Rebellion, and as a way of situating the author within either a reactionary or a radical political tradition. The Discourse of Sovereignty provides an exciting new perspective on the intellectual history of this fascinating period.Author Biography
Stuart Sim, University of Sunderland, UK and David Walker University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK
Book Details
Published
April 28, 2003
Publisher
Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Ashgate, c2003.
Pages
217
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780754604556