{"product_id":"wayward-contracts-the-crisis-of-political-obligation-in-england-16401674-9780691171241","title":"Wayward Contracts  The Crisis of Political","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2006 Best Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi  Abbreviations xiii  CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1  From Virtue to Contract 8  The Psychology of Contract 13  Poetics and the Contract of Genre 15  The Usual Story 20  The Road Ahead 25  PART I: An Anatomy of Contract,1590-1640 29  CHAPTER 2. Language and the Bond of Conscience 31  Natural Rights Theory: The Social Contract and the Linguistic Contract 33  The Common Law: Magna Carta and Economic Contract 41  Covenant Theology: Divine Speech Acts and the Covenant of Metaphor 48  CHAPTER 3. The Passions and Voluntary Servitude 57  The Slave Contract 60  The Law of the Heart 64  Free Consent 73  PART II: A Poetics of Contract, 1640-1674 81  CHAPTER 4. Imagination 83  Five Knights: From Promise to Contract 85  Shipmoney and the Imagination of Disaster 90  Henry Parker and the Metaphor of Contract 95  Falkland, Chillingworth, Digges, and the Fiction of Representation 104  CHAPTER 5. Violence 112  Prophesying Revolution 113  The Metaphorical Plot 120  CHAPTER 6. Metalanguage 134  The Problem of Essex 138  Hobbe's Critique of Romance 141  The Contract of Mimesis 147  Hobbesian Fictions 151  Method and Metalanguage 154  Hobbes's Readers or Inescapable Romance 166  CHAPTER 7. Gender 171  Political Contract and the Marriage Contract 174  The Politics of Romance 177  Passion and Interest 180  Contract on Trial 185  The Sexual Contract 189  The Paralogism of Romance 192  CHAPTER 8. Embodiment 196  Resistless Love and Hate 198  Paradise Lost and the Bond of Nature 207  Pity or Fear of Violent Death 214  CHAPTER 9. Sympathy 223  Wise Compliance 227  The Politics of Pity 234  Sympathy between Men 241  CHAPTER 10. Critique 252  Reason of State 254  Samson as Exception 262  Reasoning about the Exception: Dialectic and Equivocation 264  Taking Exception to Pity and Fear 270  Political Theology and Tragedy 276  CHAPTER 11. Conclusion 279  Notes 285  Index 365","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403829027159,"sku":"9780691171241","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691171241.jpg?v=1730484665","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wayward-contracts-the-crisis-of-political-obligation-in-england-16401674-9780691171241","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}