«His Majesty the Baby». Unchained Sovereigns in Western Literature between 19th and 20th Century «His Majesty the Baby». Ontketende vorsten in de Westerse literatuur tussen de 19e en 20e eeuw KU Leuven
In my PhD dissertation I will examine the topos of the unchained sovereign, which had appeared in literature only after the French revolution and the rise of modern democracies. By “unchained sovereigns”, I mean all those fictional characters that exert their sovereign powers in arbitrary and bizarre ways, offering the readers a distorting looking-glass that offers not just a comic but also critical vantage point to observe the dynamics of ...