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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452314703321

Autore

Watts Carol

Titolo

The cultural work of empire : the seven years' war and the imagining of the Shandean State / / Carol Watts [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007

ISBN

0-7486-7171-4

1-281-25197-6

9786611251970

0-7486-3122-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

823.6

Soggetti

Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 - Influence

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the cultural work of empire -- Lunacy in the cosmopolis (1759) : expansion and imperial recoil -- Patriot games : military masculinity and the recompense of virtue -- Pricksongs in gotham : or, the sexual oeconomy of state imagining -- Friendship, slavery and the politics of pity, including a visit from Phyllis Wheatley -- Women's time and work-discipline : or, the secret history of 'Poor Maria' -- 'Bramin, Bramine' : Sterne, Eliza Draper and the passage to India -- Concluding along Shandean lines.

Sommario/riassunto

A vibrant study of the rich cultural and literary landscape of mid-eighteenth Britain and the forging of modern subjectivity in a time of global war.