The cultural work of empire : the seven years' war and the imagining of the Shandean State /

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This book argues that the Seven Years' War (1756-63) produced an intense historical consciousness within British cultural life regarding the boundaries of belonging to community, family and nation. Global warfare prompts a radical re-imagining of the state and the subjectivities of those who in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watts, Carol, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007.
Colección:UPSO - Edinburgh University Press E-Books.
Temas:
Sterne, Laurence, > 1713-1768 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sterne, Laurence, > 1713-1768
Sterne, Laurence > 1713-1768
1700-1799
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 > Influence.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Guerre de Sept Ans, 1756-1763 > Influence.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
English literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Siebenjähriger Krieg
Imperialismus
Staatslehre
Zevenjarige oorlog.
Staat (politicologie)
Imperialisme.
Engels.
Bellettrie.
Literatuur (fictie en non-fictie)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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