Sentimental figures of empire in eighteenth-century Britain and France / / Lynn Festa
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| Autore: |
Festa Lynn M (Lynn Mary)
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| Titolo: |
Sentimental figures of empire in eighteenth-century Britain and France / / Lynn Festa
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.509358 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism |
| French fiction - 18th century - History and criticism | |
| Sentimentalism in literature | |
| Imperialism in literature | |
| Colonies in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-288) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The distinction of sentimental feeling -- Sterne's snuff box -- Tales told by things -- Making humans human -- Global commerce in Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Above all, sentimental texts used emotion as an important form of social and cultural distinction, as the attribution of sentience and feeling helped to define who would be recognized as human. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sentimental figures of empire in eighteenth-century Britain and France |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-8934-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826652003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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