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    Hobbes, sovereignty, and early American literature (2015)
    New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107085299
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 297 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 172
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
    DDC: 810.9/358
    RVK:
    HS 1070
    RVK:
    CF 4508
    RVK:
    HI 2519
    RVK:
    HL 3045
    Keywords: Hobbes, Thomas Influence ; Hobbes, Thomas ; Sovereignty in literature ; American literature History and criticism Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 ; American literature History and criticism Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 ; Politics and literature History 18th century ; United States Intellectual life 18th century ; USA ; Hobbes, Thomas 1588-1679 Leviathan ; Souveränität ; Demokratie ; Geschichte 1776-1850 ; Hobbes, Thomas 1588-1679
    Abstract: "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"--
    Description / 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.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature (2002)
    Cambridge, U.K : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0511020554 , 0521813395 , 9780521813396 , 9780511020551 , 0511120435 , 9780511120435
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 239 p , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2003 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature
    RVK:
    HS 1121
    RVK:
    HS 1520
    RVK:
    HS 1691
    Keywords: American literature History and criticism. Revolution, 1775-1783 ; Politics and literature History 18th century. ; Revolutionary literature, American History and criticism. ; Revolutions in literature. ; Democracy in literature. ; Monarchy in literature. ; American literature History and criticism ; Revolution, 1775-1783 ; Politics and literature History ; 18th century ; United States ; Revolutionary literature, American History and criticism ; Revolutions in literature ; Democracy in literature ; Monarchy in literature ; Revolutionary literature, American History and criticism ; American literature History and criticism Revolution, 1775-1783 ; Politics and literature History 18th century ; Democracy in literature ; Monarchy in literature ; American literature History and criticism Revolution, 1775-1783 ; Revolutions in literature ; Politics and literature History 18th century ; Revolutionary literature, American History and criticism ; American literature History and criticism. Revolution, 1775-1783 ; Politics and literature History 18th century. ; Revolutionary literature, American History and criticism. ; Revolutions in literature. ; Democracy in literature. ; Monarchy in literature. ; American literature ; Democracy in literature ; Intellectual life ; Monarchy in literature ; Politics and literature ; Revolutionary literature, American ; Revolutions in literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Online-Publikation ; Literatur ; Monarchie ; Demokratie ; Revolution ; United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 ; Literature and the revolution. ; United States Intellectual life 18th century. ; United States Civilization 1783-1865. ; United States History ; Literature and the revolution ; Revolution, 1775-1783 ; United States Intellectual life ; 18th century ; United States Intellectual life 18th century ; United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 ; Literature and the revolution ; United States Intellectual life 18th century ; United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 ; Literature and the revolution ; United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 ; Literature and the revolution. ; United States Intellectual life 18th century. ; United States Civilization 1783-1865. ; United States Civilization ; 1783-1865 ; United States ; USA ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Online-Publikation ; USA ; Literatur ; Monarchie ; Demokratie ; Revolution ; Geschichte 1770-1830 ; USA ; Literatur ; Monarchie ; Demokratie ; Revolution ; Geschichte 1770-1830
    Abstract: Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776 -- Crèvecoeur's revolutionary loyalism -- Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin -- An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Brown's secrets -- Luxury, effeminacy, corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy -- Afterword: the revolution's last word; American Revolution (1775-1783); Geschichte 1770-1830; 1700 - 1799
    Description / Table of Contents: Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776 -- Crèvecoeur's revolutionary loyalism -- Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin -- An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Brown's secrets -- Luxury, effeminacy, corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy -- Afterword: the revolution's last word
    Description / Table of Contents: Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776Crèvecoeur's revolutionary loyalism -- Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin -- An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Brown's secrets -- Luxury, effeminacy, corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy -- Afterword: the revolution's last word.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003
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