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As pyrotechnic as it is closely reasoned, this bold and convincing new
book looks at the unlikely role that spectacular technologies of domination and enchantment played in the making of "modern" political community. Christopher Loar punctures the myth of modernity by reversing two standard narratives about the decline of magic and the rise of the
liberal subject. That subject's story, disturbingly beholden to technologies of violence and enchantment, is told through insightful new readings of Swift, Defoe, Behn, and Haywood. "Political Magic" reunites these writers and their fictions with the political philosophy and
savagely wondrous colonial practices of the seventeenth century.
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Discusses fictional encounters between Europeans and purportedly "savage" people in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, arguing that these fictions illuminate debates about sovereignty, violence, and political community. Examines works by Thomas Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Eliza Haywood. Seller Inventory # B9780823256914
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Book Description Condition: New. Examines British fictions of exploration and colonialism from 1650 to 1750, arguing that narratives of intercultural contact work to reimagine political categories such as sovereignty and popular power. This book includes fictions that refigure the commoner as a superstitious savage encountering Britons as civilizing sovereigns. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 235 x 30. Weight in Grams: 594. . 2014. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780823256914