Introduction: Secularism is an Imperial Theology with a Socialist Secret
1. Dryden’s Political Theology and the Making of a Modern Subject
2. The Domestic Novel’s First Heroine: Alexander Pope and the Construction of a National Theological Subject
3. "Beyond What the Crown Itself Can Confer": Clarissa and the Antinomian Heart of the Modern British Subject
4. The Other Side of Discipline: Marriage, Slavery, and the Ambivalent Politics of Maria Edgeworth’s Domestic Subject
Epilogue: An Immanent Language of Change
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