Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780823256945
0823256944
9780823256921
0823256928
9780823261437
0823261433
9780823256914
|
|---|
| Digital file characteristics: | data file
|
|---|
| Notes: | Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
|
|---|
| Summary: | 'Political Magic' examines British fictions of exploration and colonialism from 1650 to 1750, arguing that narratives of intercultural contact reimagine political categories such as sovereignty and popular power. By examining works by Margaret Cavendish, Daniel Defoe, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, and Eliza Haywood in conjunction with political writing and travelogues, 'Political Magic' locates a subterranean discourse of sovereignty in the century after Hobbes, finding surprising affinities between the government of 'savages' and of Britons.
|
|---|
| Other form: | Print version: Loar, Christopher F. Political magic : British fictions of savagery and sovereignty, 1650-1750. New York : Fordham University Press, ©2014 xi, 326 pages 9780823256914
|
|---|
