We are kings

• Verfasst von: Jackson, Spencer [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: We are kings
• Titelzusatz: political theology and the making of a modern individual
• Verf.angabe: Spencer Jackson
• Verlagsort: Charlottesville ; London
• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Jahr: 2020
• Umfang: ix, 217 Seiten
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-4472-2
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-4471-5
• Schlagwörter: (s)Englisch / (s)Literatur / (s)Individualität <Motiv> / (s)Säkularismus <Motiv>
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Jackson, Spencer: We are kings. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020. - Online-Ressource
• K10plus-PPN: 1725808471

Abstract

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.

Abstract

"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"--