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The cultural work of empire : The Seven Years' War and the imagining of the Shandean state / Carol Watts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watts, Carol, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763.
- Subjectivity.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sterne, Laurence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-7171-4
- 1-281-25197-6
- 9786611251970
- 0-7486-3122-4
- OCLC:
- 437203009
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