{"product_id":"we-are-kings-spencer-jackson-9780813944715","title":"We Are Kings: Political Theology and the Making of a Modern Individual","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Are Kings\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Spencer Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813944716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813944715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Spencer Jackson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086912958719,"sku":"9780813944715","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e09ec4b-e127-439a-9d13-2a1d8caad88a.jpg?v=1769097289","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/we-are-kings-spencer-jackson-9780813944715","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}