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Orienting Virtue : Civic Identity and Orientalism in Britain's Global Eighteenth Century /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Williamson, Bethany, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 5. Rasselas's "Conscious Virtue": Cosmopolitan Civics in Johnson and Ellis Cornelia Knight -- Afterword: A Kantian Legacy of Cosmopolitan Virtue Signaling -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 
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