Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the controversies in the 1760s surrounding the political figure John Wilkes (1725-97) legitimated some men as political subjects, while forcefu
The Aesthetics of Democracy: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy
โ Scribed by Craig Carson (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 169
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-v
Democracy and the War of Images: An Introduction....Pages 1-33
Biopolitics and the Image Obscured....Pages 35-53
The Divided People....Pages 55-91
The Image of Suffering....Pages 93-113
Only the Shape of Men....Pages 115-146
Infinite Accumulation....Pages 147-161
Back Matter....Pages 163-170
โฆ Subjects
Eighteenth-Century Literature;European Literature;North American Literature
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