Peter DeGabriele is Associate Professor of English at the Mississippi State University, and the author of –Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political– (Bucknell University Press, 2015). Professor DeGabriele specializes in the study of eighteenth-century literature and culture; his research explores the relationship between literary texts and the political philosophy and epistemology of the period.

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