Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political - Paperback

by Peter Degabriele (Author)

This book examines the role of the novelists and historians of the eighteenth century in developing a vision of political modernity that questions traditional narratives about the rise of liberalism and the decline of sovereign power.

Author Biography

Peter DeGabriele is assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University.