- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 326 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Political magic (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Political magic (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-318) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: magical government -- Enchanting the savage: the politics of pyrotechnics in the Cavendish Circle -- Fire and sword: Aphra Behn and the materials of authority -- Talking guns and savage spaces: Daniel Defoe's civilizing technologies -- Doctrines détestables: Jonathan Swift, despotism, and virtue -- Savage vision: violence, reason, and surveillance in Eliza Haywood -- Coda: Enemies.
- LCCN
- 2013037283
- OCLC
- ssj0001197008
- Author
Loar, Christopher F.
- Title
Political magic [electronic resource] : British fictions of savagery and sovereignty, 1650-1750 / Christopher F. Loar.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-318) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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