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- Autorius: Spencer Jackson
- Leidėjas: University of Virginia Press
- Metai: 2020
- Puslapiai: 230
- ISBN: 9780813944739
- ISBN-10: 0813944732
- ISBN-13: 9780813944739
- Formatas: ePub
- Kalba: Anglų
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When British and American leaders today talk of the nation-whether it is Boris Johnson, Barack Obama, or Donald Trump-they do so, in part, in terms established by eighteenth-century British literature. The city on a hill and the sovereign individual are tropes at the center of modern Anglo-American political thought, and the literature that accompanied Britain's rise to imperial prominence played a key role in creating them.
We Are Kings is the first book to interpret eighteenth-century British literature from the perspective of political theology. Spencer Jackson returns here to a body of literature long associated with modernity's origins without assuming that modernity entails a separation of the religious from the profane. The result is a study that casts this literature in a surprisingly new light. From the patriot to the marriage plot, the narratives and characters of eighteenth-century British literature are the products of the politicization of religion, Jackson argues; the real story of this literature is neither secularization nor the survival of orthodox Judeo-Christianity but rather the expansion of a movement beginning in the High Middle Ages to transfer the transcendent authority of the Catholic Church to the English political sphere. The novel and the modern individual, then, are in a sense both secular and religious at once-products of a modern political faith that has authorized Anglo-American exceptionalism from the eighteenth century to the present.
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- Autorius: Spencer Jackson
- Leidėjas: University of Virginia Press
- Metai: 2020
- Puslapiai: 230
- ISBN: 9780813944739
- ISBN-10: 0813944732
- ISBN-13: 9780813944739
- Formatas: ePub
- Kalba: Anglų
When British and American leaders today talk of the nation-whether it is Boris Johnson, Barack Obama, or Donald Trump-they do so, in part, in terms established by eighteenth-century British literature. The city on a hill and the sovereign individual are tropes at the center of modern Anglo-American political thought, and the literature that accompanied Britain's rise to imperial prominence played a key role in creating them.
We Are Kings is the first book to interpret eighteenth-century British literature from the perspective of political theology. Spencer Jackson returns here to a body of literature long associated with modernity's origins without assuming that modernity entails a separation of the religious from the profane. The result is a study that casts this literature in a surprisingly new light. From the patriot to the marriage plot, the narratives and characters of eighteenth-century British literature are the products of the politicization of religion, Jackson argues; the real story of this literature is neither secularization nor the survival of orthodox Judeo-Christianity but rather the expansion of a movement beginning in the High Middle Ages to transfer the transcendent authority of the Catholic Church to the English political sphere. The novel and the modern individual, then, are in a sense both secular and religious at once-products of a modern political faith that has authorized Anglo-American exceptionalism from the eighteenth century to the present.
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