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