The cultural work of empire : the seven years' war and the imagining of the Shandean State / / Carol Watts [[electronic resource]]
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Watts Carol
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The cultural work of empire : the seven years' war and the imagining of the Shandean State / / Carol Watts [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 823.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 - Influence |
| English literature - 18th century - History and criticism | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The cultural work of empire |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-7171-4 |
| 1-281-25197-6 | |
| 9786611251970 | |
| 0-7486-3122-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781825203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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