Overview
Hobbes, Sovereignty and Early American Literature explores the development of ideas about sovereignty and democracy in the early United States. It looks at Puritan sermons and poetry, founding-era political debates and representations of revolutionary and anti-slavery violence to reveal how Americans imagined the elusive possibility of a democratic sovereignty.
- | Author: Paul Downes
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Jul 28, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 350 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1107085292
- | ISBN-13: 9781107085299
