Orienting virtue : civic identity and orientalism in Britain's global eighteenth century / Bethany Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williamson, Bethany, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, English, in literature.

Orientalism in literature.

Virtue in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This book examines how British writers in the the eighteenth century deployed images of the East to shape ideas of virtue and political identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Defining English Virtue in the Global Eighteenth Century

1. "Our Lusts Gave Us Liberty": Mercantile Might and English Republicanism in Neville's Isle of Pines

2. "Striking Sail" in Satire: Heroic Virtue and the Mughal Machiavelli in Dryden's Aureng-Zebe

3. Recovering the "True Spirit of Liberty": Gulliver's Travels in Sparta and Japan

4. "Happy to Be Enslaved": Feminist Orientalism and the Constraints of Romance in Pix's Ibrahim, Kindersley's Letters, and Lennox's Female Quixote

5. Rasselas's "Conscious Virtue": Cosmopolitan Civics in Johnson and Ellis Cornelia Knight

Afterword: A Kantian Legacy of Cosmopolitan Virtue Signaling

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Williamson, Bethany Orienting Virtue

ISBN:

9780813947624

OCLC:

1337409315