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UNINA9910452314703321 |
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Watts Carol |
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Titolo |
The cultural work of empire : the seven years' war and the imagining of the Shandean State / / Carol Watts [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007 |
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0-7486-7171-4 |
1-281-25197-6 |
9786611251970 |
0-7486-3122-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 - Influence |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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