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Hobbes, sovereignty, and early American literature
- Title
- Hobbes, sovereignty, and early American literature / Paul Downes.
- Author
- Downes, Paul
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- xiii, 297 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 172
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 172.
- Subjects
- Sovereignty in literature
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 > Leviathan
- American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 > Influence
- Politics and literature > United States > History > 18th century
- American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism
- United States > Intellectual life > 18th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Hobbes and the golden calf -- 1. Sovereignty's new clothes -- 2. Rereading 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 13 -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-6543
- ISBN
- 9781107085299
- 1107085292
- LCCN
- 2014048686
- OCLC
- 899880576
- Author
- Downes, Paul, author.
- Title
- Hobbes, sovereignty, and early American literature / Paul Downes.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 172Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 172.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-6543